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Registration Details

Date: 23 February 1805

Registrant: Douthet, Hezekiah

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Elizabeth

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Darcas

Date of Birth: 28 November 1804

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Zilph

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negro Women Slave the property of James Wall of said County & Township Distiler and farmer which said child Darcas is in my possession as the property of My Daughter Sarah being the gift of said James Wall to her"

Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Douthet, Sarah

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: mother

Sources

Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," p. 60, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA