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Registration Details

Date: 4 August 1807

Registrant: Hoge, John

Historical County: Washington

Modern County: Washington

Residence: Washington

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Maria

Date of Birth: 7 May 1807

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Priscilla

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "negro woman, slave"

Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Hoge, John

Occupation: Esquire

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

Return

John Hoge of Washington Town has a black
Woman named Priscilla at his Mill in Chartiers
Township, who had on the 7th day of May 1807 a female
child born, which he understands she will _^ ^not name
under the impression that it cannot be otherwise recorded.
He therefore names it Maria and desires it may be so
recorded.
Jn Hoge

Registry

John Hoge Esqr. of Washington enters of record one female
negro child named maria, born in Chartiers township May
7th 1807, of the body of Pricilla, a negro woman, slave.
Fees 20 ctw paid. Sworn Aug^t 4 1807.
Coram W M^cKennan

Sources

Enslaver return: Enslaver returns and correspondence, 1782-1865, Folder 1, Box XV-j-238, Historical Collection, Washington & Jefferson College Special Collections, Washington, PA
Clerk registry: Washington County Negro Register From 1782 to 1851, p. 66, Box XV-j-238, Historical Collection, Washington & Jefferson College Special Collections, Washington, PA