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Registration Details

Date: 13 October 1780

Registrant: Davis, John

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Middleton

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Patience

Date of Birth: 1755

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Ruth

Date of Birth: 1757

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Darby

Date of Birth: 1758

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Doll

Date of Birth: 1770

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

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.

Davis, John

Occupation: Colonel; Gentleman

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Return



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13th Octr 1780
Gent Wm Irwin

97
13th Octr 1780
John Davis QrMr

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One Negroa Girl 25 Years of Age Named Patience
One do 23 do Named Ruth
one Mullatto 10 do Named Doll
One Negroa Man 22 Years of age Named Darby

Returned by
John Davis qmr
13th October 1780

Editor’s Note. On the front page the erroneous heading for William Irwin is written upside-down.

Registry



13 Octr 1780

97 John Davis Carlisle Qr Mr
277 Patience a Female Negro Slave for Life X 25 do
278 Ruth a Female Negro Slave for Life X 23 do
279 Doll a Female Negro Slave for Life X 10
280 Darby a Male Negro Slave for Life X 22 do

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 97, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 31, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA