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Registration Details

Date: 25 May 1802

Registrant: Sowers, Michael

Historical County: Washington

Modern County: Washington

Residence: West Bethlehem

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Thomas

Date of Birth: 24 April 1802

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Kesiah

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave for life"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sowers, Michael

Occupation: Innkeeper

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Clerk registry: Washington County Negro Register From 1782 to 1851, p. 58, Box XV-j-238, Historical Collection, Washington & Jefferson College Special Collections, Washington, PA