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Registration Details

Date: 30 October 1780

Registrant: Cox, Samuel

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Lurgan

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ebenezer

Date of Birth: 1755

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.

Cox, Samuel

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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30th October 1780
Samuel Cox

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Samuel Cox of Lurgan Township in the County of Cumberland
Farmer agreeable to the Law for the Gradual abolition of
Slavery returns Abone Ebenezer a Male Negro Slave
aged about 25 years of Age to be recorded

30 th October 1780
To John Agnew Clk
of the Peace

Saml Cox

Registry



30th Octr 1780

270 265 Samuel Cox Lurgan Farmer age
685 Ebenezer a Male Negro Slave X 25 do

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 270, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 71, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA