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Registration Details

Date: 31 October 1780

Registrant: Chesnut, John

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Hamilton

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Cuff

Date of Birth: 1742

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.

Chesnut, John

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Registry



31 Octr 1780

297 John Chesnut Hamilton Farmer
719 Cuff a Male Negro Slave for Life X 38 yrs

Sources

  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 76, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA