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Registration Details

Date: 2 October 1780

Registrant: Harris, John

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Juniata

Residence: Fermanagh

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Meela

Date of Birth: 1766

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified

Amee

Date of Birth: 1769

Sex: Female

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.

Harris, John

Occupation: Esquire

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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43
3^d Oct^r 1780
John Harris Esq^r
Fermanagh

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S^r according to the Law for the
gradual abolition ^ ^of Slavery all Negro
and mulato Slaves are to be ~~Registr^ated~~
Registered Before the first of Nov^r
next I have got two they are
Both famels the oldest about 14
years of ages her name is Meela
the other about II her name is
Amee you will please Register
^ ^them ~~names~~ as the Law Directs
I am S^r your most obe^dt ser^t

John Harris

Oct^r 2^d 1780

Editor’s Note. The address “M^r W^m Lyon, Carlisle” is included perpendicular to the left the main text.

Registry

3^d Octob^r

	43 John Harris Esq^r Fermanagh	years
143 Meela	a Female Negro Slave X	14
144 Amee	a Female Negro Slave X	11

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 43, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 16, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA