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Registration Details

Date: 13 November 1793

Registrant: Nichaolas, Michael

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Benjamin

Date of Birth: 18 May 1793

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: "duly entered and registered, as a Slave at Lancaster"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Nichaolas, Michael

Occupation: Innkeeper

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of Michael Nicholas of Donegal Twp, 13 November 1793, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F009_It09, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 15, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA