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Registration Details

Date: 30 October 1780

Registrant: Dixon, William

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Hamilton

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sampson

Date of Birth: 1772

Sex: Male

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.

Dixon, William

Occupation: Miller

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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30^th Oct^r 1780
W^m Dixon

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William Dixon of Hamilton Township in
County of Cumb^d Miller returns to be record.
agreeable to Law the Following ~~Negroe~~ ^Mullatto, Slave
viz^t Sampson a Male Mullatto Slave for life 8 ^{y^rs}

To John Agnew Clk
of the Peace Cumb^d Co^y
30^th Oct^r 1780

William Dixon
miller

Registry

30^th Oct^r 1780

	268 William Dixon Hamilton Miller	age
683 Sampson	a Male Mullatto Slave for life x	8 d^o

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 268, 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