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Registration Details

Date: 30 December 1805

Registrant: Ward, Thomas

Historical County: Washington

Modern County: Washington

Residence: Somerset

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Susannah

Date of Birth: 10 September 1805

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Rachel

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "negro woman entered by Frederic Cooper in March 1789--a slave until she arrives at the age of twenty eight years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ward, Thomas

Occupation: Unspecified

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. 64, Box XV-j-238, Historical Collection, Washington & Jefferson College Special Collections, Washington, PA