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Registration Details

Date: 5 July 1816

Registrant: Witmer, Daniel

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Lampeter

Tags: surnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Lewis, Jane

Date of Birth: 2 June 1816

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Deborah

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Term Slave

Description of mother: "servant ... who was bound by Indenture to Jacob Witmer October 13, 1814, to serve him his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, for the term of 7 years thence next ensuing in consideration of his having procured her emancipation from slavery in Cecil County Maryland, and the said Jacob Witmer by an assignment on said Indenture on October 31, 1814, transferred the residue of the time of service of said negress Deborah to said Daniel Witmer"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Witmer, Daniel

Occupation: Innkeeper; Merchant

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 42, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA