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Registration Details

Date: 18 April 1820

Registrant: Dillon, Humphrey

Historical County: Bedford

Modern County: Bedford

Residence: Bedford

Tags: hereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

George

Date of Birth: 21 December 1819

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Diggs, Eliza

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "negro woman servant"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Dillon, Humphrey

Occupation: Tavernkeeper

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Records of Negro and Mulatto Children and Miscellaneous Slave Records, [ca. 1780-1834] (microfilm), RG-047, Records of County Governments, Bedford County, Prothonotary, Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA

Secondary Sources: VanderVelde and Subramanian, "Mrs. Dred Scott," Yale Law Review