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Registration Details

Date: 27 August 1811

Registrant: Coleman, Samuel

Historical County: Centre

Modern County: Clearfield

Residence: Chinklacamoose

Tags: marriagepaternitytwinshereditary term slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Valentine

Date of Birth: 29 April 1811

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Grace

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "Negro woman being a servant for twenty eight years"


Orson

Date of Birth: 29 April 1811

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Grace

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Term Slave (28 Years)

Description of mother: "Negro woman being a servant for twenty eight years"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Boone, Joseph

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: doctor


Document Transcriptions

Return



Centre County ss

Before me the subscriber Clerk of the Court of General
quarter Sessions in and for said County came Samuel Coleman
who saith on his solemn oath ^ affirmation that on the ninth night
of the ^ twenty ninth of April last a certain Negro Woman of the
name of Grace was delivered of two Negro boys in the family
of Joseph Boon on the Grampian hills on the plantation of
this deponent. The said Negro Woman being a servant for
twenty eight years unto the said Joseph Boon. The oldest of
the said Negro children is Named Valentine and the youngest
Orson. The woman is married to a Negro man of the Henry C Otto

Affirmed and Subscribed the 27th day
of August 1811
Wm Petrikin

Saml Coleman

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Birth Returns for Negroes and Mulattoes, 1803-1820 (microfilm), RG-047, Records of County Governments, Centre County, Prothonotary, Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA