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Registration Details

Date: 27 March 1789

Registrant: Whitehill, John

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Prince

Date of Birth: 25 May 1787

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Hannah

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "a Slave ... duly Entered and Registered by John Midelston of Lancaster"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Whitehill, John

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of John Whitehill of Donegal Twp, 27 March 1789, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F004_It07, 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 8, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA