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Registration Details

Date: 28 April 1800

Registrant: Wallace, John

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Mifflin

Tags: twins

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ben

Date of Birth: 31 March 1800

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Binah

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negro Women Slave"


Bett

Date of Birth: 31 March 1800

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Binah

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negro Women Slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Wallace, John

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," pp. 45-6, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA