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Registration Details

Date: 25 November 1791

Registrant: Not recorded

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Lancaster

Residence: Little Britain

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Benjamin

Date of Birth: May 1791

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jane

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Slave ... duly entered and registered by me at Lancaster"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Porter, Andrew

Occupation: farmer

Relation to registrant: Unclear


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Return of Andrew Porter of Little Britain Twp, 25 November 1791, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F007_It07, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
  • Transcript: J. B. Eshleman, comp., "Record of the Returns Made in Writing"As Clerk"By Possessors of Negro or Mulatto Children Born After March 1, 1780"John Hubley, clerk, June 7, 1788," p. 11, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Call Number 326 R294p Oversized, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA