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Registration Details

Date: 17 December 1792

Registrant: Watson, John

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Briton

Date of Birth: 21 October 1792

Sex: Male

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Addah

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.

Watson, John

Occupation: Physican

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of John Watson of Donegal Twp, 17 December 1792, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F008_It08, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 13, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA