Date: 10 July 1780
Registrant: Hidster, Joseph [Hiester, Joseph]
Historical County: Berks
Modern County: Berks
Residence: Reading
Tags:
Details given are as recorded in the registration.
Date of Birth: 1767
Sex: Male
Race: Unspecified
Status: Lifelong Slave
Name of mother: Unspecified
Race of mother: Unspecified
Status of mother: Unspecified
Description of mother: Unspecified
Date of Birth: 1766
Sex: Female
Race: Unspecified
Status: Lifelong Slave
Name of mother: Unspecified
Race of mother: Unspecified
Status of mother: Unspecified
Description of mother: Unspecified
Details given are as recorded in the registration.
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| Owners Names | Slaves Names | Slaves Age | Time of Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Kidster | Pero Boy Dina Girl |
13 do 16 do |
1780 July 10th |
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The only slaves
registered by Joseph Hiester in 1780 were Pero, a boy
13 years of age, and Dina, a girl 14 years old; but
in 1805 Joseph Hiester entered the name of Charles,
the “son of Dinah,” born March 16, 1805.
LOOK AT THE RECORD.
Among the records of the court of general quarter
sessions of the peace, in and for the county of
Berks, it is thus contained:
“July 10th, 1780, Colonel Joseph Hiester, of
Reading, in Berks county, reports to the clerk of the
peace of the said county, according to the directions
of the act entitled, an act for the gradual abolition
of slavery, that he has ONE MALE SLAVE, named
Pero, aged about thirteen years, and ONE FEMALE
SLAVE, named Dinah, aged about fourteen years.
Endorsed. JOSEPH HIESTER”
“Report of Col. Joseph Hiester for his slaves, Ju-
ly 10th, 1780.”
[…]
Pennsylvania, Berks County, ss.
I, John Addams, clerk of the court
of quarter sessions of the peace, in
and for Berks county, do hereby cer-
tify that the foregoing contains a full
and entire copy of the record of the
entry of all the SLAVES REGISTERED
BY JOSEPH HIESTER in the office of the clerk of the
said court; and that it does NOT appear from any
record in the aforesaid office, that ANY OF THE SAID
SLAVES have been EMANCIPATED.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said court at Reading,
this second day of September, A.D. one thous-
and eight hundred and twenty.
JOHN ADDAMS. Clk. Sess.