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Registration Details

Date: 21 December 1818

Registrant: Welsh, John

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Lancaster

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Caroline

Date of Birth: 11 August 1818

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Maria

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "servant, who is liable to serve until she arrives to the age of 28 years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Welsh, John

Occupation: Innkeeper

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 45, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA