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Registration Details

Date: 18 December 1816

Registrant: Meason, Isaac (Col.)

Historical County: Fayette

Modern County: Fayette

Residence: Dunbar

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Nelson

Date of Birth: 29 October 1816

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jean

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "servent...during her natural life"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Meason, Isaac (Col.)

Occupation: Esquire; Iron Master

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Birth Returns and Other Records for Negroes and Mulattos 1785, 1788-1826, 1830, No. 112, RG-047-FAYE-PROT-119, Records of County Governments, Fayette County, Prothonotary, Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA