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Registration Details

Date: 18 November 1819

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.

Ruth

Date of Birth: 22 July 1819

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Term Slave

Description of mother: "servant"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Lightner, Leah

Occupation: Unspecified

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 46, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA