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Registration Details

Date: 8 February 1821

Registrant: Hayes, Margaret

Historical County: Chester

Modern County: Chester

Residence: Lower Oxford

Tags: suspicioushereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Zechariah

Date of Birth: 25 August 1821

Sex: Male

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Zellah

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Term Slave

Description of mother: "servant girl ... a woman of colour"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Hayes, Margaret

Occupation: Widow

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: "Negro Servant Returns, 1788-1821," RG-4100, Clerk of Courts and Quarter Sessions, Chester County Archives and Record Services, West Chester, PA