doc_alle0154

Registration Details

Date: 9 April 1812

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.

Frank

Date of Birth: 12 November 1811

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Milla

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: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Transcript



[page 87]

No. 187.

To the Clk of the Peace of Ally County
Abner Barker of the Borough of Pittsburgh
Returns to the said Clk a male mullattoe
Child, called “Frank” born on or about the
12th Day of November 1811, of a Negro
Women called Milla’ the property of said
Barker and liable to serve untill the
age of 28 years
Allegheny County Sst

[page 88]

Before me the Subcriber Clk of the peace
in and for the said county personaly ap-
peared Abner Barker of the Borough of
Pittsgh in the said County who being
duly sworn according to Law deposeth and
saith that the above Return is just and
true to the best of his Knowledge and
belif

Abner Barker

Sworn & Subscribed before
me this 9th April 1812
E Pentland Pro

Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," pp. 87-8, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA

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