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Registration Details

Date: 14 December 1780

Registrant: Gemmel, John

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Mifflin

Residence: Derry

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Flora

Date of Birth: 1738

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified

York

Date of Birth: 1740

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.

Gemmel, John

Occupation: Watch; Clockmaker

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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14^th Dec^r 1780
Jn^o Gemmil

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John Gemmill of Derry Township Cumberland County Clock & Watch Maker
has a Negroe Man named York aged about forty years and a Negroe Woman
Named Flora aged about forty two years both of which Negroes he holds
Slaves for Life, and desires they may be registred by the Clerk of the Peace
for Cumberland County, having heard only this Day of the Law requiring
such Registry to be made, given under my hand this 14^th Day of
Dec^r 1780.

To John Agnew Esq^r
Clk of the Peace for Cumb^d County

John Gemmell

Registry

14^th dec^r 1780

	316 John Gammil Derry watch & Clock maker
24 York	Male Negroe Slave x	40
25 Flora	Female Negroe Slave x	42

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 316, 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