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Registration Details

Date: 21 September 1780

Registrant: Duncan, Stephen

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Carlisle

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Frank

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


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Duncan, Stephen

Occupation: Merchant

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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27
21st Sepr 1780
Stephen Duncan
return 1 Slave

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In pursuance of the “Act for the gradual
Abolition of Slavery” Stephen Duncan of the
town of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland
Merchant, doth hereby enter with the Clerk
of the Sessions of the said County

Frank a Negro Man aged
Twenty two years or there about whom he owns as
a Slave during his life

To John Agnew Esqr
Clerk of the Peace in
& for the County of Cumberland

1780

Registry



21st Sepr

27 Stephen Duncan Carlisle Mercht
98 Frank a Negro Slave during life X 22

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 27, 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