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Registration Details

Date: 22 May 1798

Registrant: Edwards, Susanna

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Lancaster

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jesse

Date of Birth: 1 January 1798

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jude

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negroe ... a female Slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Edwards, Susanna

Occupation: Widow

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of Susanna Edwards of Lancaster, 22 May 1798, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser02_F006_It02, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 22, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA