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Registration Details

Date: 13 October 1780

Registrant: Irwin, James

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Middleton

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Leah

Date of Birth: 1760

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.

Irwin, James

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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13^th Oct^r 1780
Col. W^m Chambers
92-93
& James Irwin

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a Return of Mullatto & Negro Slaves the property of
William Chambers of Middleton Township the
County of Cumberland Farmer with an Acc^t of their
Sexes Names and Ages viz⁵

Sack a Female Negro Slave for life aged 40 y^rs
Fann a Female Negro Slave for Life 10 d^o
Killbuck a Male Negro Slave for Life 20 d^o
Jack a Male Negro Slave d^o 12 d^o
Richard a Male Negro Slave d^o 1 d^o

13^th Oct^r 1780
William Chambers

James Irwin of the Township and County afsd^d
Farmer agreeable _^ ^to law^ returns to _^ ^be registred

Leah a Female Negro Slave for Life aged 20 y^rs

13^th 1780
James Irwin

Registry

13^th Oct^r 1780

	93 James Irwin Middleton Farmer
273 Leah	a Female Negro Slave for life X	20 y^rs

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, Nos. 92-3, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 30, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA