"In 1820 there was an Ordinance requiring all "persons of colour," residents and visitors, to register with the mayor within 24 hours of arrival in the city, providing information as to name, address, names of all family members, and occupations."
Original manuscript is on microfilm Drawer 3, sec. 2: #205.
Record of the returns made in writing and delivered to me as Clerk of Lancaster by possessor of Negro or mulatto children born after March 1, 1780...agreeably to an Act of Assembly of the State of Pa. entitled "An Act to explain and amend an Act entitled an Act for the gradual abolition of slavery"
Register of negroe and mulatto slaves and servants, 1780.
Physical Description
95 p. ; 27 cm.
Notes
Copy of handwritten record; original source of transcription unknown; transcriber unknown.
Includes index.
See also information file: Slave Returns Manuscripts.
See also Record of the returns made in writing...as clerk...by posessor of negro or mulatto children born after March 1, 1780...Microfilm #206 and LC326.9 R294 Oversize.
See also the African American Records Collection, 1780-1849: MG- 240.
