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Registration Details

Date: 2 May 1826

Registrant: Eshleman, Benjamin

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Lancaster

Tags: surnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sharp, Charles

Date of Birth: 1 February 1826

Sex: Male

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Maria

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "servant ... until she arrives to the age of 28 years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Eshleman, Benjamin

Occupation: Innkeeper

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 48, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA