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Registration Details

Date: 15 January 1815

Registrant: Smith, Isaac

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Salisbury

Tags: surnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Martin, George

Date of Birth: 16 December 1814

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Martin, Abigail

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave

Description of mother: "servant(his)for [sic] 7 years and was so at the time of the birth of said child, and was sold to the said Isaac Smith for the said 7 years by William Irwin of Chester County"

Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Smith, Isaac

Occupation: Innkeeper

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 39, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA