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Registration Details

Date: 22 August 1780

Registrant: Gibson, Robert

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Carlisle

Tags: Native American slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Poll

Date of Birth: July 1777

Sex: Female

Race: "Mistoe"

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Phillis

Date of Birth: 1754 or 1755

Sex: Female

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.

Gibson, Robert

Occupation: Carpenter

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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22d Augt. 1780
Robert Gibson
Return of Slaves

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Robert Gibson of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland
pencilvania Came before one John Agnew Justice of the
peace for said County and Delivered to me the names and
age of all his sleaves and desires the same be recorded
as such
phillis a Mullato sleave for Life blind     of both Eyes
aged about 25 or 26 years of age
poll a Mustee sleave for life aged 3 years old and
one month
22 August 1780           Robert Gibson Carpenter

Registry



Robert Gibson of Carlisle in the County
of Cumberland Carpenter

Yrs of ages
9 Phillis a Mulatto Slave for Life blind of both eyes x 25 or 26
10 Poll a Mestoe Slave for Life about x 3

Augt. 22d 1780

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 2, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 2, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA