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Registration Details

Date: 2 January 1809

Registrant: Pentecost, Joseph

Historical County: Washington

Modern County: Unspecified

Residence: Unspecified

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Benjamin

Date of Birth: 20 November 1808

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Frances

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "female slave for life"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Pentecost, Joseph

Occupation: Esquire

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Original Slave Record of Washington County, 1782, Box XV-j-238, Historical Collection, Washington & Jefferson College Special Collections, Washington, PA
  • Clerk registry: Washington County Negro Register From 1782 to 1851, p. 68, Box XV-j-238, Historical Collection, Washington & Jefferson College Special Collections, Washington, PA