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Registration Details

Date: 29 May 1793

Registrant: Spear, Robert

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Hempfield

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Fanny

Date of Birth: 5 January 1793

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Deborah

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by me at Lancaster"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Spear, Robert

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of Robert Spear of Hempfield Twp, 29 May 1793, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F009_It04, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
  • 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 14, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA