doc_cumb0296

Registration Details

Date: 12 December 1780

Registrant: Geddis, William

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: West Pennsboro

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ham

Date of Birth: 1735

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.

Geddis, William

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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12^th Decem 1780
W^m Gaddis

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William Gaddis of Westpennsbro’ Township in the County of Cumb^d
Farm^r returns to be recorded the following Negro Slave viz^t
Ham a Male Negro Slave aged about 45 y^rs

12^th Decem^r 1780
To John Agnew Clk
of the Sessions

W^m Gaddes

Registry

12^th decem^r 1780

	315 William Gaddis W Penns Farm^r
23 Ham	Male Negroe Slave x	45

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 315, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 81, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA