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Registration Details

Date: 19 March 1789

Registrant: Simpson, Michael

Historical County: York

Modern County: York

Residence: Newberry

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jean

Date of Birth: March 1782

Sex: Female

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Sall

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: Unspecified


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Simpson, Michael

Occupation: Gentleman

Relation to registrant: self


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York County
Copy under seal
Negro Registry

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Names of Owners. Occupations
Names of
or
Owners
Professions		 Residence Names of
Negroes		 When
Born		 Sexes When Entered
Michael Simpson Gentleman Newbury
Township.		 Jean March 1783. Female March the 19th AD. 1789.

In testimony that the foregoing is a true copy as taken from and Compared with
the Original record, or Books, Containing the Registry of Negroes, Born since the first
day of March one thousand seven Hundred and Eighty, remaining in the
office of the Clerk of the Courts of Quarter Sessions in and for the County of York.

I have hereunto set my hand, and the seal of the said
Court the tenth day of April In the Year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.

Jacob Spangler Clerk

Sources

  • Other: Overseers of the Poor of York County, Appellants v. Overseers of the Poor of Monroe Township, Cumberland County Court of Quarter Sessions, April Term 1828, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Indictments, Item 1828.329.04, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA