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Registration Details

Date: 16 June 1809

Registrant: Sewell, Charles S.

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Manor

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sarah

Date of Birth: 15 April 1809

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Zilpha

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Term Slave

Description of mother: "indentured servant whose time is not yet expired"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sewell, Charles S.

Occupation: Unspecified

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 34, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA