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Registration Details

Date: 22 August 1794

Registrant: Thompson, William

Historical County: Chester

Modern County: Chester

Residence: New London

Tags: paternity

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Lawson

Date of Birth: 4 July 1794

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

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.

Thompson, William

Occupation: Miller

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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Aug. 1794
Retn Wm Thompson

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William Thompson of New london Township Chester County
Doth Make Return a moletto Boy Son of William Lawson as
by oath Sworn by the Childs mother therefore the Name of
the Child is Lawson and was Born the 4 day of July Last
Past Dated this 22 day of august 1794 William Thompson

Registry



William Thompson
of the Township of New London Chester County
Miller returns to the Clerk of the Peace for the
said County the Name and Age of his Mulatto
Boy, to wit a Mulatto Boy named Lawson,
born the fourth day of July Anno Domini 1794
William Thompson on his solemn Oath
according to Law doth depose and say that the
above return so by him Made is Just and true
according to the best f his Knowledge & beleif

Sworn & Subscribed
Aug. 22d 1794 Before
William Gibbons Clk.

William Thompson

Sources

  • Enslaver return: "Negro Servant Returns, 1788-1821," RG-4100, Clerk of Courts and Quarter Sessions, Chester County Archives and Record Services, West Chester, PA
  • Clerk registry: "A Census of the Slaves in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1780-1815," p. 20, Slavery Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (MS 717), Box 3, Folder 8, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT