doc_alle0139

Registration Details

Date: 12 December 1809

Registrant: Barker, Abner

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Pittsburgh

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

William

Date of Birth: 16 August 1809

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Charlotte

Race of mother: Mulatto

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "Mullatto servent"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Butler, Maria

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: unknown


Document Transcriptions

Transcript



No. 166.

Abner Barker of the Borough of Pittsburgh
on his solmen oath doth depose & say that
about the 16th Day of Aug 1809, Charletto
a Mullatto servent of Mrs Maria Butler,
was Delivered of a Mullattoe Male Child
named William and desires that the said
child may be registered Agreeably to Law
Abner Barker Sworn & subcribed the
12 of December 1809… E. Pentland Pro.

Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," p. 74, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA