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Registration Details

Date: 30 July 1810

Registrant: Barker, Abner

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Pittsburgh

Tags: surnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Richards, Lizzy ("Lizy" Richards)

Date of Birth: 25 February 1810

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Milly

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "Negro Women"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Barker, Abner

Occupation: Merchant

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," pp. 76-7, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Additional Primary Sources: Commonwealth v. Barker (1824);