Date: 20 October 1807
Registrant: Sewell, Charles S.
Historical County: Lancaster
Modern County: Lancaster
Residence: Manor
Details given are as recorded in the registration.
Date of Birth: 10 January 1807
Sex: Male
Race: Mulatto
Status: Term Slave (28 Years)
Name of mother: Sylfa [Sylva]
Race of mother: Negro
Status of mother: Term Slave
Description of mother: "negro woman bound to serve me from the twenty seventh day of November 1805 untill the first day of January eighteen hundred and Eleven"
Details given are as recorded in the registration.
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1807
Charles S. Sewell
filed Octr 20th 1807.
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In pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the State
of Pennsylvania, I Charles S Sewell of Mannor Township
Lancaster County, Farmer, Do here by enter and return,
That James a Mulata Male Child the Son of Sylfa my
indented Servant, a negro woman bound to Serve me
from the twenty seventh day of November 1805 untill
the first day of January eighteen hundred and Eliven
that the Aforesaid James a male Child was born on
or about the tenth day of may 1807, during which
time ^ the Said nigro Sylfa was and is in my service,
Witness my hand, at Lancaster, the twentieth day of
October 1807
To William Barton Esqr
Clk. of the peace for the County
of Lancaster Sworn the 20
day of October 1807
Sworn Octr 20th 1807
Before Me
W. Barton
Prot
Charles S Sewell
October 20,- Charles S. Sewell of Manor Twp., farmer, returns
James a mulatto male child, the son of Sylva, his indentured ser-
vant; born Januay 10, 1807.