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Registration Details

Date: 23 October 1780

Registrant: Brownson, Richard

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Peters

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Susanah

Date of Birth: 1760

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Frank

Date of Birth: 1760

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Bess

Date of Birth: Unspecified

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.

Brownson, Richard

Occupation: Doctor

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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Page 219 63.
27th Octr 1780
Doctr Richd Brownson

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A Return of Negroes now in my posesion
Frank supposed to be about 20 years of age
Susanah and bess supposed to be about 21 years of age
Bess a Little Girl age unnone

23d Octr 1780
Peters Township

Richard Brownson

Registry



27th Octr 1780

224 219 Doctr Richard Brownson Peters
596 Frank a Male Negro Slave X 20 yrs
Susanah a Female Negro X 21
597 Bess a Female Litte girl age unknown X

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 224, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 63, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA