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Registration Details

Date: 4 May 1798

Registrant: Watson, John

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Phillis

Date of Birth: 17 April 1798

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Fann

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Watson, John

Occupation: Physician

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 22, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA