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Registration Details

Date: 29 July 1811

Registrant: Vanleer, Bernard

Historical County: Chester

Modern County: Chester

Residence: West Caln

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Shirk, Jane

Date of Birth: 20 June 1811

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

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.

Vanleer, Bernard

Occupation: Iron Master

Relation to registrant: self


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. 80, Slavery Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (MS 717), Box 3, Folder 8, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT