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Registration Details

Date: 1 August 1799

Registrant: Boyd, William (Esq.)

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Salisbury

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Mirah

Date of Birth: 8 February 1799

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Catharine

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Boyd, William (Esq.)

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 24, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA