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Registration Details

Date: 6 September 1780

Registrant: Carson, Jonathan

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Carlisle

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Rachel

Date of Birth: 1766

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.

Carson, Jonathan

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Return



[front]

21
6th Sepr 1780
Jno Carsons
Slave

[back]

A Return of a Negroe Slave
the propertyof John Carson of
Cumberland County

1 Negroe Wench Rachel 14 years old

Septr 6th 1780
Jno Carson

Editor’s Note. The front page of the document contains some arithmetic accounting in the margins.

Registry



Sepr 6 1780

21 John Carson Carlisle Gentl
72 Rachel a Negro Wench X 14

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 21, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 8, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA