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Registration Details

Date: 31 March 1789

Registrant: Boyd, William (Esq.)

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Salisbury

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Toby

Date of Birth: February 1786

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Kitt

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by me"


Tom

Date of Birth: 21 February 1784

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Kitt

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by me"


George

Date of Birth: December 1787

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Kitt

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by me"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Boyd, William (Esq.)

Occupation: Justice of the Peace; Justice of the Lancaster Court of Common Pleas

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: "Boyd, William of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Record of registration for three mulatto children and their mother (C22)," 1789 Mar 31, The E. L. McGlashan Collection of Documents Concerning Slavery in the United States, General Collection (GEN MSS 555), Series IV: Other Documents, 1770-1863, Box 1, Folder 31, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  • 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 9, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA