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Registration Details

Date: 3 August 1791

Registrant: Martin, James

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Earl

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jeffrey

Date of Birth: 4 February 1791

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Phillis

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by Joshua Evans (her former master) at Lancaster"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Martin, James

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of James Martin of Earl Twp, 3 August 1791, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F007_It04, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
  • 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 11, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA