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Registration Details

Date: 16 August 1788

Registrant: Edwards, Thomas

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Lancaster

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jere

Date of Birth: 1787

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Reach [Rachel]

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave...Regalerly entred by Christofel Reighert in the offece of this Countey"


Dinah

Date of Birth: 1787

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jude

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave...Regalerly entred by Christofel Reighert in the offece of this Countey"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Edwards, Thomas

Occupation: Innkeeper

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of Thomas Edwards of Lancaster, 16 August 1788, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F001_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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 1, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA