On 6 October 1780, George Ewing registered “1 negro child named Jude [aged] 11 months” with the Lancaster County prothonotary. The way that Ewing registered the people he enslaved—first a woman and a child, then another woman and two children—suggests that the women were mothers. If Maria was Jude’s mother, then the Maria whom NathanielContinue reading “Slave Registration, George Ewing, 1780”
On 6 October 1780, George Ewing registered “1 negro child named Jude [aged] 11 months” with the Lancaster County prothonotary. The way that Ewing registered the people he enslaved—first a woman and a child, then another woman and two children—suggests that the women were mothers.
If Maria was Jude’s mother, then the Maria whom Nathaniel Breading registered was her great-granddaughter. Four generations of women captured by two slave returns, spanning fifty-six years of Pennsylvania history.
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