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Registration Details

Date: 24 August 1780

Registrant: Chambers, Benjamin

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Guilford

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Phebee

Date of Birth: 1776

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Dina

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: Unspecified


Fanny

Date of Birth: 1773

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Dina

Date of Birth: 1750

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Nell

Date of Birth: 1765

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Pegg

Date of Birth: 1768

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Tom

Date of Birth: October 1779

Sex: Unspecified

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.

Chambers, Benjamin

Occupation: Gentleman

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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11-12
25 Augt 1780

Benj. Chambers
Dr Jno Colhoone
list of Slaves

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Cumberland County, Guilford Township

A Return of my negroes, with them names &
ages in as follows Viz

Dina ages 30 years a slave Negroes
Nell aged 15 Do a Slave
Pegg aged 12 Do a Slave Negroes
Fanny aged 7 Do a Slave
Phebee aged 4 Do a Slave
Tom aged 10 months Do

To Jno Agnew Esqr
Benja Chambers

Dr Jno Calhoon returns one negro ^ female slave Named Pheb aged 25 years

Jno Colhoon
Chambersbg 24th Augth 1780

Registry



1780 Augt 25th

Names 11 Benjamin Chambers Guilford Gent Age
51 Dinah a Negroe Slave X 30
52 Nell a Mullatoe Slave X 15
53 Pegg a Negroe Slave X 12
54 Fanny a Mullatoe Slave X 7
55 Phebee a Mullatoe Slave X 4
56 Tom a Mullatoe Slave X 10 ms

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, Nos. 11-2, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 6, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA