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Registration Details

Date: 11 March 1811

Registrant: Lightner, Nathaniel P.

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Leacock

Tags: surnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Peter

Date of Birth: 16 September 1810

Sex: Male

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 for the term of 28 years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Lightner, Leah

Occupation: Widow

Relation to registrant: relative; agent


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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 36, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA