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Registration Details

Date: 21 November 1814

Registrant: Hopkins, John (Esq.)

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Strasburg

Tags: suspicioussurnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Myers, Joseph

Date of Birth: 27 May 1814

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Myers, Julia

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "his servant to the age of 28 years, and was so at the birth"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Hopkins, John (Esq.)

Occupation: Esquire

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 39, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA