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Registration Details

Date: 9 February 1821

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.

Charlotte

Date of Birth: 31 August 1821

Sex: Female

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Venus

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "servant ... 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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 46, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA