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Registration Details

Date: 6 January 1818

Registrant: Yeates, John

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Salisbury

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Voltaire

Date of Birth: 11 November 1817

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Phillis

Race of mother: Mulatto

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "servant"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Yeates, John

Occupation: Farmer

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Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 43, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA