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Registration Details

Date: 9 February 1809

Registrant: Woods, John

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Pittsburgh

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

William

Date of Birth: 11 October 1808

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Maria

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "Negro Women until the Age of twenty Eight years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Woods, John

Occupation: Attorney

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," pp. 70-1, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA