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Registration Details

Date: 4 August 1823

Registrant: Meason, Isaac (Jr.)

Historical County: Fayette

Modern County: Fayette

Residence: Dunbar

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

David

Date of Birth: 17 July 1823

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jane

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "negroe woman...a slave for life"


Nelson

Date of Birth: 23 July 1823

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Maria

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "negroe woman...a servant until twenty-eight years of age"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Meason, Isaac

Occupation: Deceased

Relation to registrant: executor; son


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Birth Returns and Other Records for Negroes and Mulattos 1785, 1788-1826, 1830, Nos. 154-5, RG-047-FAYE-PROT-119, Records of County Governments, Fayette County, Prothonotary, Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA