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Registration Details

Date: 20 July 1821

Registrant: Watson, William

Historical County: Bedford

Modern County: Bedford

Residence: Bedford

Tags: surnamehereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Charles

Date of Birth: 3 May 1821

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Jamison, Rachel

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "a Servant of the said Dr Watson until the age of twenty eight years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Watson, William

Occupation: Doctor

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
  • Clerk registry: Records of Negro and Mulatto Children, 1821-1825, 1828 (microfilm), p. 1, RG-047, Records of County Governments, Bedford County, Prothonotary, Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA