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Registration Details

Date: 19 March 1811

Registrant: Morrow, William

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Pittsburgh

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

George

Date of Birth: 3 October 1810

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Gardiner, Hannah

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "Negroe Wench...the property of the said Wm Morrow and liable to serve untill 28 (26 cents Paid)"


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  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," p. 79-80, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA