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Registration Details

Date: 29 May 1792

Registrant: Caldwell, Oliver

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Little Britain

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Joseph

Date of Birth: 28 January 1792

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Ruth

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered at Lancaster"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Caldwell, Oliver

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of Oliver Caldwell of Little Britain Twp, 29 May 1792, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F008_It03, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 12, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA