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Registration Details

Date: 5 May 1798

Registrant: Morrison, James

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Drumore

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ebenezer

Date of Birth: 11 November 1797

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Nance

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Morrison, James

Occupation: Farmer

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 22, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA