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Registration Details

Date: 7 February 1815

Registrant: Cooper, John

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Leacock

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Benjamin

Date of Birth: 12 August 1814

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Phillis

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "slave for life"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Cooper, John

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 39, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA