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Registration Details

Date: 6 January 1790

Registrant: Cook, Samuel [Cooke]

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sharp

Date of Birth: 8 July 1789

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Dina

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Cook, Samuel [Cooke]

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of Samuel Cooke of Donegal Twp, 6 January 1790, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F006_It01, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 10, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA