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Registration Details

Date: 13 October 1780

Registrant: Chambers, James

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Newton

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Pizzaro

Date of Birth: 1772

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.

Chambers, James

Occupation: Colonel

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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94
13th October 1780
Col James Chambers

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Col. James Chambers of Newtown Township
in the County of Cumbd returns to be registred
agreeable to Law the following Negro viz

Pizzara Male negro Slave for Life aged 8 yrs

Cathrine Chambers
13th Octr 1780
To John Agnew clk

Registry



13th Octr 1780

94 Coll. James Chambers Newtown
274 Pizzara a Male Negro Slave for life X 8 do

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 94, 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