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Registration Details

Date: 4 May 1791

Registrant: Spear, Robert

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Hempfield

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sidney

Date of Birth: 5 December 1790

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Debe

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "negro...female slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Spear, Robert

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 11, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA