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Registration Details

Date: 10 February 1818

Registrant: Reigart, Emanuel (Esq.)

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Lancaster

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Caroline

Date of Birth: 26 September 1817

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Eliza

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "servant ... who was emancipated by her former master George Gale of Cecil County Maryland and by him sold to George Bryan Esq., and by him transferred to said Emanuel Reigart liable to serve till she arrives at the age of 28 years"

Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Reigart, Emanuel (Esq.)

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," pp. 43-4, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA