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Registration Details

Date: 21 March 1812

Registrant: Peterson, Gabrial [Peterson, Gabriel]

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Mifflin

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Elizabeth

Date of Birth: 24 September 1811

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Poll

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "negro women...slave for life"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Peterson, Gabrial [Peterson, Gabriel]

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," p. 85, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA