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Registration Details

Date: 6 October 1780

Registrant: Buchanan, Thomas

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Unspecified

Residence: Unspecified

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Cato

Date of Birth: 1764

Sex: Male

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, Thomas

Occupation: Sublieutenant

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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48 . 49
6^th October 1780
W^m Rippey &
Tho^s Buchanan Sub. L

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a List of Negroes the Property of Captain
William Rippy 6^th October 1780

Dick, Negro Slave aged 30 years
Jemi, Negro Slave aged 20 years
Reaner, Ditto Slave, a wench about 25 years
Dina, Negro Slave about 10 years
Mattes, Negro Boy Slave about 10 years
Tom, Mullato Boy Slave about 11 years

W^m Rippey

one Negro Boy the property of Tho^s Buchanan
6^th October 1780
Cato, Negro Boy Slave aged 16 ^ys

Tho^s Buchanan

Registry

6^th October

	49 Thomas Buchanan Sub Lieu^t W Penn^s
161 Cato	x a Male Negro Slave for Life x	16

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, Nos. 48-9, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 18, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA