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Registration Details

Date: 30 August 1816

Registrant: Henderson, John Barton

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Leacock

Tags: surnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Meredith, Eli Douglass

Date of Birth: 23 April 1816

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Charlotte

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "servant till she arrives at the age of 28 years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Henderson, John Barton

Occupation: Farmer

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 42, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA