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Registration Details

Date: 13 September 1780

Registrant: Buchanan, John

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Carlisle

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Poll

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

Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Buchanan, John

Occupation: Wagon Master

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

Return

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90-91
13^th October 1780
James Galbraith Esq^r
& John Buchanan

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James Galbreath of Eastpennsbro’ Township _^ ^{Esq^r} Returns

Sharper a Male Negroe Slave Aged 70 years
Chloe a female Negroe Slave Aged 60 years
Hercules a Male Negroe Slave Aged 16 years
Rachell a female Negroe Slave Aged 8 years
Violet a female Negroe Slave Aged 6 years
Luce a female Negroe Slave Aged 5 years

J Agnew Esq^r
13^th Sept^r 1780

And^w Galbraith

John Buchannan of the Town of Carlisle Waggon Master Returns

Poll a female Negroe Slave Aged 18 Years

Carlisle 13^th Sept^r 1780
John Agnew Esq^r

John Buchanan

Registry

13^th Oct^r 1780

	91 John Buchanan Carlisle Waggon Mst^r
267 Poll	a Female Negro Slave for Life X	18 years

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, Nos. 90-1, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 30, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA