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Registration Details

Date: 4 December 1792

Registrant: Sterrett, David

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Sadsbury

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ruth

Date of Birth: 10 July 1792

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jean

Race of mother: Mulatto

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

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


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sterrett, David

Occupation: Miller

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 13, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA