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Registration Details

Date: 11 October 1780

Registrant: Duncan, William

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Hopewell

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Tama

Date of Birth: 1758

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.

Duncan, William

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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11^th Oct^r 1780
William Duncan

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William Duncan of Hopewell Township
in the County of Cumberland Farmer
returns agreeable to the Law for the Gradual
abolition of Slavery returns to the Clk of the Peace
to he registred

Tama a Female Negro Slave for Life
aged about 22 years

11^th Oct^r 1780
William Duncan

Registry

11^th Oct^r

	60 William Duncan Hopewell Farmer
178 Tama	a Female Negro Slave for Life X	22

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 60, 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