PETITIONER* Name of Child Birthdate Parent’s Name(s) Registration Date
1) James Rankin
“Peter”
3-22-1803
“Sall”
8-3-1803
Farmer
“male mulatto”
Potter Twp.
Comments: “on the
22nd day of March, 1803, his Negro wench named Sall was delivered of a
Male mulatto child which he calls by
the name of Peter”
2) Philip Benner
“Kiz”
4-30-1803 not
given
9-27-1803
Iron
Master “ female”
Spring Twp.
Comments: “”Philip Benner (Bonner?) …enters his Negro child, Kiz, a female…”
3) Matthias Richards
“Sinai”
11-15-1806 not
given
5-15-1806
Farmer
“mulatto female”
Bald Eagle
Twp.
Comments: “ a mulatto female child was born into my Family, named Sinai”
4) Joseph
Miles
“Charles”
3-16-1807 not
given
7-25-1807
Iron
master
“negro male”
Ferguson Twp.
Comments: “a
negro male child…was born in our family at Centre Furnace…”
5) James
Harris
“Leonora”
12-30-1808 not
given
2-3-1808
Farmer
“mulatto child”
Spring
Twp.
Comments: “which said child I have named Leonora…”
6) John & Joseph Miles
“Jerry”
2-1-1809
not
given
6-3-1809
Iron
masters
“Negro boy”
Spring
Twp.
Comments: “enter as their
property, the right to the service of a Negro boy named Jerry, born
on the first day of February
1809 at Spring Twp., in the Family at Milesboro Forge”
7) James
Rankin “Lydia
Boyd”
6-22-1809 not
given
8-29-1809
Farmer
“negro female”
Potters Twp.
Comments: “a
Negro female child which I have named Lydia Boyd”
8) Elizabeth Richards “Flora
Green”
10-26-1809 not
indicated
4-18-1810
Bald Eagle Twp.
Comments: “was
born into my Family a negro child which I have named Flora Green”
9) Joseph
Boone
“Hariot Otto”
1-26-1810 not
given
7-18-1810
Farmer
“mulatto female”
Chinckaclemouth
Twp.
Comments: “a mulatto female child…born into my Family…which I have named Hariot Otto”
10) Elizabeth
Smith
“Edgar”
1-28/29-1811
“Julian”
6-28-1811
Spring
Twp.
“male mulatto”
Comments” “a male
Mulatto child, born the 28th or 29th of January, 1811, being the son of
Julian, a Negro servant
of Elizabeth Smith”
11) Philip
Antes
“William Clark”
3-29-1811 not
given
7-30-1811
Farmer
“negro male”
Howard
Twp.
Comments: “born in my family which I have named William Clark”
12) Joseph Boon
(twins) “Valentine”
4-29-1811 Grace
Otto
8-7-1811
Farmer
“ Orson”
Grampion
Hills
“Before me the
subscriber Clerk of the Court of General Quarter Session in & for the
said
county, came Samuel Coleman
who saith in his solemn affirmation that on the night of the
the 29th 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 Grampion Hills on the plantation of this deponent –
the said Negro woman being a servant
for 28 years unto the said Joseph Boon – the oldest of
the said Negro children is named
Valentine & the youngest, Orson. The woman is married to
a Negro man of the name Henry C.
Otto”
13) Frederick A. Richards
“Cato”
4-10-1812
not
given
9-16-1812
Farmer
“Negro boy”
Bald Eagle
Twp.
Comments: “one Negro boy named Cato”
14) Frederick Augustus Richards
“Simon” September 1819
“Phillis”
2-28-1820
Farmer
“male mulatto”
Bald Eagle
Twp.
Comments:“a black woman named Phillis, a slave of mine, was delivered of a male
mulatto child
named
Simon, in residence at my farm in Bald Eagle Twp., Centre Co.”
