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Registration Details

Date: 19 October 1818

Registrant: Lightner, Joel (Esq.)

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Leacock

Tags: surnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Mills, Esther

Date of Birth: 10 May 1818

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Mills, Sophia

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "servant ... liable to serve until she arrives to the age of 28 years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Lightner, Joel (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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 45, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA