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Registration Details

Date: 1780

Registrant: Hodgson, Abel

Historical County: Chester

Modern County: Chester

Residence: East Nottingham

Tags: Native American slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Caesar

Date of Birth: 1755

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Jam

Date of Birth: 1752

Sex: Male

Race: Indian

Status: Term Slave (31 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Sarah

Date of Birth: 1756

Sex: Female

Race: Indian

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Hodgson, Abel

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Registry



Abel hodgson of East Nottingham township farmer

A Indian Servant man till he attains the age of
thirty one Years named Jam aged twenty
eight years
No. 1 A Negro Man named Cæsar aged twenty five Years
a slave for life
2 A Indian Girl named Sarah aged twenty four
Years a slave for life

Sources

  • Clerk registry: "A Census of the Slaves in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1780-1815," p. 38, Slavery Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (MS 717), Box 3, Folder 8, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT