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Registration Details

Date: 23 March 1789

Registrant: Gillespy, George

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: West Pennsboro

Tags: twins

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Frank

Date of Birth: April 1788

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Dinah

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negro...Slave"


Jack

Date of Birth: April 1788

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Dinah

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negro...Slave"


Violet

Date of Birth: April 1785

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Dinah

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negro...Slave"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Gillespy, George

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 51, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 2, No. 51, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA