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Registration Details

Date: 29 November 1805

Registrant: Morrow, William

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Pittsburgh

Tags: suspicioushereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Emily

Date of Birth: 30 May 1805

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Rachel

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "Negro Women who is a Servant till 28 years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Morrow, William

Occupation: Innkeeper

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," pp. 60-1, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA