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Registration Details

Date: 27 October 1780

Registrant: Culbertson, John

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Middleton

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Grace

Date of Birth: 1763

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified

Ben

Date of Birth: 1773

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.

Culbertson, John

Occupation: Tavernkeeper

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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27^th Oct^r 1780
John Culbertson

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October the 27 y< 1780

the Lusts of my Negroes
Eage as Names as I can tell
one named ~~grace~~ grace 17 yeares olde
one named Ben yage 7 yeares olde
a treou return of all my Negroes
this from my hand
John Culbertson

Registry

11^th Oct^r

	59 John Culbertson Shippensburgh Hopewll TK^r
176 Grace	a Female Negro Slave for Life X	18
177 Dunmore	a Male Negro Slave for Life X	6

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 59, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 20, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA