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Registration Details

Date: 16 September 1801

Registrant: Bell, John

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: St. Clear

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Betsy

Date of Birth: 13 July 1801

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Sarah

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negro Women...Slaves for life"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Bell, John

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," pp. 49-50, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA