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Registration Details

Date: 11 October 1780

Registrant: Blyth, Benjamin

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Hopewell

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Bob

Date of Birth: 27 December 1779

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Cesar

Date of Birth: 1752

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Nan

Date of Birth: 1762

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Antony

Date of Birth: 1770

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Lucia

Date of Birth: 1776

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

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.

Blyth, Benjamin

Occupation: Sublieutenant

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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11th October 1780
Benjamin Blyth

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Benjm Blyth yeoman Inhabatant of Hopewell
Township Cumberland County
Posesed of the following Negroes Cesar Antony a man
Twenty Eight years old Antony a meal ten years old
Bob a meel Nine Months & fifteen days old Nan a
Woman Eighteen years old Lucea a femel 4 years old

Benjamin Blyth

Registry



11th Octr 1780

62 Benjamin Blyth Hopewell Sub Lieut
186 Cezar a Male Negro Slave for Life X 28 do
187 Antony a Male Negro Slave for Life X 10 do
188 Bob a Male Negro Slave for Life X 9 ms 15 ds
189 Nann a Female Negro Slave for Life X 18 yrs
190 Luce a Female Negro Slave for Life X 4 do

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 62, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 21, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA