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Registration Details

Date: 21 May 1823

Registrant: Johnston, Robert

Historical County: Fayette

Modern County: Not Applicable

Residence: Rostraver, Westmoreland County

Tags: surnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Scott, Abraham

Date of Birth: 6 December 1822

Sex: Male

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Esther

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "servant girl...a servant until the age of twenty eight"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Johnston, Robert

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Birth Returns and Other Records for Negroes and Mulattos 1785, 1788-1826, 1830, No. 151, RG-047-FAYE-PROT-119, Records of County Governments, Fayette County, Prothonotary, Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA