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Registration Details

Date: 10 May 1793

Registrant: Evans, John

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Caernarvon

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Priscilla

Date of Birth: 13 November 1792

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Abigail

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered at Lancaster"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Evans, John

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of John Evans of Caernarvon Twp, 10 May 1793, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F009_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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 14, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA