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Registration Details

Date: 30 October 1780

Registrant: Culbertson, William

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: East Pennsboro

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Bella

Date of Birth: 1765

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.

Culbertson, William

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Return



William Culbertson of East Pennsbro Townsp
Farmer Returns to be Registerd according
to Law

Bell a Negroe Slave aged 15 Years

To John Agnew Esqr
30th Octr 1780

William Culbertson

Registry



30th Octr 1780

274 269 William Culberson Eastpennsbro Farmr
689 Bella a Negro Slave Female X 15 yrs

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 274, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 72, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA