doc_dela0011

Registration Details

Date: 22 September 1809

Registrant: Calhoun, Mary

Historical County: Delaware

Modern County: Delaware

Residence: Aston

Tags: surname

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Reddon, Margaret

Date of Birth: 5 April 1809

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Calhoun, Mary

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Return



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Mary Calhoun’s
Return of a Negro
Child

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I Mary Calhoun of the township of Aston
in Delaware County Comonwealth of Pennsyla
do Mak Return to the Clerk of the Peace of the Said
County upon oath a ^ female Negro Child named
Margaret Reddon born the fifth day of April
last in order that the said Child maybe
entered & Registered according to the
provisions of the act ^ Assembly in Such Case made
& provided

Sworn & Subscribed
Septr 22nd 1809 before me
Jos Engle Clk.

Mary Calhoon

Registry



On the twenty second day of September Anno Domini
1809 Mary Calhoun of the township of Aston makes
return on oath of a female Negro Child named
Margaret Reddon born the fifth day of April
last in order that the said child may be entered
& Registered According to law

Jos: Engle Clk

Sources

  • Enslaver return: "The Slave Dockets," loose manuscript, Delaware County Bar Association, Media, PA
  • Clerk registry: "The Slave Dockets," p. 21, Delaware County Bar Association, Media, PA