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Registration Details

Date: 21 September 1780

Registrant: Creigh, John

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Carlisle

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jean

Date of Birth: 1760

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.

Creigh, John

Occupation: Storekeeper

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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28
21st Sepr 1780
John Creigh’s return
of 1 Slave

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In Pursuance of the Act for gradual Absolution
of Slavery John Creigh of the Town of Carlisle
in the County of Cumberland Storekeeper
doth hereby enter with the Clerk of the Sessions
of the said county, Jean a Negroe Woman
aged about Twenty or whom said John
owns As a Slave during her Natural
Life

Registry



21st Sepr 1780

No 28 John Creigh Carlisle Store keeper
99 Jean A Negro Slave for life X 20

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 28, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 11, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA