Date: 20 December 1796
Registrant: Hiester, Joseph
Historical County: Berks
Modern County: Berks
Residence: Reading
Tags:
Details given are as recorded in the registration.
Date of Birth: 9 July 1796
Sex: Unspecified
Race: Unspecified
Status: Term Slave (28 Years)
Name of mother: Dinah
Race of mother: Unspecified
Status of mother: Lifelong Slave
Details given are as recorded in the registration.
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:
[…]
“Joseph Hiester, of the borough of Reading, in
the county of Berks, Esquire, makes oath: Henry,
(son of Dinah, A NEGRO SLAVE, the PROPERTY of
Mr. Hiester) was born on the ninth day of July
last past, and now enters him agreeably to law.
JOSEPH HIESTER.”
Sworn and subscribed, December 28th, 1796, co-
ram me, George Eckhert.
Endorsed
“JOSEPH HIESTER.”
[…]
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.