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Registration Details

Date: 31 March 1789

Registrant: Porter, Andrew

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Little Britain

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ben

Date of Birth: November 1780

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Fanny

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by my Brother William Porter (whose Property they then were) at Lancaster"


Pegg

Date of Birth: February 1782

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Fanny

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by my Brother William Porter (whose Property they then were) at Lancaster"


Nance

Date of Birth: May 1788

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jane

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by my Brother William Porter (whose Property they then were) at Lancaster"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Porter, Andrew

Occupation: Husbandman

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of Andrew Porter of Little Britain Twp, 31 March 1789, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F005_It03, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 9, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA