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Registration Details

Date: 4 October 1819

Registrant: Musser, John

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Lancaster

Tags: surnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Boose, James

Date of Birth: 24 June 1819

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Robinson, Kitty [Boose, Kitty]

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "servant ... until she arrives to the age of 28 years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Musser, John

Occupation: Silversmith

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 46, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA