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Registration Details

Date: 28 March 1789

Registrant: Cook, David

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Esther

Date of Birth: January 1787

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Rose

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... Duly Entered and Registered by Robert Spear at Lancaster"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Cook, David

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of David Cook of Donegal Twp, 28 March 1789, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F004_It09, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 8, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA