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Registration Details

Date: 17 September 1804

Registrant: Sproat, James

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Columbia

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Dinah

Date of Birth: 24 March 1804

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Dinah

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sproat, James

Occupation: Carter

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 29, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA