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Registration Details

Date: 17 November 1815

Registrant: Lightner, Leah

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Leacock

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ellen

Date of Birth: 28 May 1815

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Summers, Anna

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.

Lightner, Leah

Occupation: Widow

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 40, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA