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Registration Details

Date: 5 June 1811

Registrant: Whitehill, Mary

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Donegal

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Susanna

Date of Birth: 29 January 1811

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Barbara

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "servant, for the term of 28 years, (to Ann Middleton, but now in the service of the said Mary Whitehill)"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Whitehill, Mary

Occupation: Widow

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 37, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA