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Registration Details

Date: 28 November 1789

Registrant: Evans, James

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Caernarvon

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sylvy

Date of Birth: 28 May 1789

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Evans, James

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of James Evans of Caernarvon Twp, 28 November 1789, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F005_It09, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 10, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA