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Registration Details

Date: 22 September 1780

Registrant: Finlay, James

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Letterkenny

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sampson

Date of Birth: 1750

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Will

Date of Birth: 1756

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Cuff

Date of Birth: 1764

Sex: Unspecified

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: 1765

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Beck

Date of Birth: 1775

Sex: Unspecified

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.

Finlay, James

Occupation: Farmer; Malter; Esquire

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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31
22d Sepr 1780
James Finlay
list of Slaves

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Cumberland County Letterkenny Tp a
return of my Negroes with their names
Ages and sexes as follows Viz

Sampson a Negroe Slave aged 30 yrs
Will a Nege Slave aged 24 do
Cuff a do do aged 16 do
Doll a Mullatoe during life 15 do
Beck a Mullatoe during life 5 do

Carlisle 22 Sepr 1780
Jno Agnew Esqr
James Finley

Editor’s Note. Towards the bottom of the front page of the document, the phrase “In Pursuance” is written upside-down in a smudged and faded script.

Registry



22d Sepr 1780

No 31 James Finlay Letterkenny Farmer age
105 Samson a Negro Slave X 30
106 Will a Negro Slave X 24
107 Cuff a Negro Slave X 16
108 Bill a Mullato Slave during Life X 15
109 Beck a Mullato Slave during life X 5

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 31, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 12, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA