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Registration Details

Date: 13 October 1780

Registrant: Buchanan, Robert

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Mifflin

Residence: Derry

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Tom

Date of Birth: 1740

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Phillis

Date of Birth: 1745

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Murie

Date of Birth: 1777

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, Robert

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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12th October 1780
Robt Buchannan

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A Return of Negroes the Property of Robert
Buchanan Viz.

A Negro Man named Tom, about forty Years
of Age a Slave for Life
A Negroe Woman named Phillis about thirty
five years of Age a Slave for Life
A Negro girl, Daughter to Phillis ^ Named Murie about three
Years of Age, a Slave for Life

Carlisle 13th Octr 1780

Robt Buchanan

Registry



12th Octr 1780

80 Robert Buchannan Derry Farmer
231 Tom a Negro Slave male Slave for Life X 40 do
231 Phillis a Female Negro Slave for Life X 30 do
232 Phillis ^ Murie a Female Negro Slave for Life X 3 do

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 80, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 26, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA