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Registration Details

Date: 26 March 1789

Registrant: Lightner, Adam

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Leacock

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Anna

Date of Birth: July 1788

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Nell

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "female slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Lightner, Adam

Occupation: Husbandman

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 7, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA