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Registration Details

Date: 25 July 1818

Registrant: Withers, George

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Drumore

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Mira

Date of Birth: 25 May 1818

Sex: Female

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jane

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

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


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Withers, George

Occupation: Ironmaster

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," pp. 44-5, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA