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Registration Details

Date: 4 March 1789

Registrant: Bailey, James (Esq.)

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

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Date of Birth: 9 June 1781

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Fillis

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly Enterd & Registered by John Bayly"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Bailey, James (Esq.)

Occupation: Esquire

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of James [Bailey] of Donegal Twp, 4 March 1789, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F003_It02, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
  • Transcript: J. B. Eshleman, comp., "Record of the Returns Made in Writing"As Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 5, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA