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Registration Details

Date: 25 March 1789

Registrant: Johnston, John

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Salisbury

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ben

Date of Birth: April 1785

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Esther

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by me at Lancaster as a Slave"


Ruth

Date of Birth: August 1787

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Esther

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by me at Lancaster as a Slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Johnston, John

Occupation: Husbandman

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of John Johnston of Sadsbury Twp, 25 March 1789, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F003_It08, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 7, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA