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Registration Details

Date: 6 September 1780

Registrant: Cowan, William

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Unclear

Residence: Shippensburg

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Alice

Date of Birth: 1750

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.

Cowan, William

Occupation: Blacksmith

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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16-17
Sepr 6 1780
Jams Herron
list of Slaves

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Return of Negro the property
of William Cowen of Shippen.
burgh [illegible deletion] Blacksmith

1 Negro Womn Namd Alice abt 30 yrs

[smudge]th Septemr 1780
Wm Cowan

A list of Negroes the property
of James Herron Lurgan Townsp
in Cumbd County Farmer

1 Negro man Namd Richd abt 18 yrs
1 Do boy Cuff 7 yrs

6th Sep 1780
James Herron

Registry



6 Sepr

16 William Cowan Hopewell Blacksmith age
63 Allice a Negroe Slave x 30

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, Nos. 16-7, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 7, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA