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Registration Details

Date: 15 June 1793

Registrant: Cunningham, Jannett

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Lancaster

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ben

Date of Birth: 20 January 1793

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jane

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and Registered in Chester County"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Cunningham, Jannett

Occupation: Widow

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of Janett Cunningham of Lancaster, 15 June 1793, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F009_It06, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 14, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA