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Registration Details

Date: 6 August 1821

Registrant: Ramsay, Thomas

Historical County: Fayette

Modern County: Fayette

Residence: Springhill

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Dan

Date of Birth: 27 February 1821

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Bella

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

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


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ramsay, Thomas

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Birth Returns and Other Records for Negroes and Mulattos 1785, 1788-1826, 1830, No. 142, RG-047-FAYE-PROT-119, Records of County Governments, Fayette County, Prothonotary, Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA