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Registration Details

Date: 20 April 1791

Registrant: Edwards, Thomas

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Lancaster

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Nixon, Nathaniel

Date of Birth: December 1790

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jude

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... regularly enterd. by Christopher Reigart in the Office of this County"


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, 20 April 1791, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F007_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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 11, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA