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Registration Details

Date: 11 March 1789

Registrant: Burns, Samuel

Historical County: Fayette

Modern County: Fayette

Residence: Washington

Tags: twins

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Tom

Date of Birth: September 1784

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Nance

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Wench then the property of General Washington"


Charity

Date of Birth: September 1784

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Nance

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Wench then the property of General Washington"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Burns, Samuel

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Birth Returns and Other Records for Negroes and Mulattos 1785, 1788-1826, 1830, Nos. 154-5, RG-047-FAYE-PROT-119, Records of County Governments, Fayette County, Prothonotary, Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA