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Registration Details

Date: 30 October 1780

Registrant: Shannon, Robert

Historical County: Philadelphia

Modern County: Montgomery

Residence: Norristown

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Cesar

Date of Birth: 1772

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Rosannah

Race of mother: Mulatto

Status of mother: Term Slave (31 Years)

Description of mother: "Mulatto Woman"


Dinah

Date of Birth: 1774

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Rosannah

Race of mother: Mulatto

Status of mother: Term Slave (31 Years)

Description of mother: "Mulatto Woman"


Jude

Date of Birth: 1777

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Rosannah

Race of mother: Mulatto

Status of mother: Term Slave (31 Years)

Description of mother: "Mulatto Woman"


Richard

Date of Birth: 1779

Sex: Male

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (31 Years)

Name of mother: Rosannah

Race of mother: Mulatto

Status of mother: Term Slave (31 Years)

Description of mother: "Mulatto Woman"


Rosannah

Date of Birth: 1755

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (31 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: White

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Shannon, Robert

Occupation: Practitioner of Phisick [Physician]

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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Robert Shannon Practitioner of Phisick Norriston
Enters as his Slaves
a Negro boy Cesar aged 8 years
girl Dinah 6 years
girl Jude 3 years
a mulatto woman Rosannah 25 years old to be Free at 31.
her Son Named Richard, aged 1 year, to be Free at 31.

Sources

  • Other: "Acting committee minute book, 1789-1797," p. 378, Series I, Pennsylvania Abolition Society papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA