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Registration Details

Date: 10 October 1780

Registrant: King, John (Rev.)

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Peters

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sue

Date of Birth: 1755

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified

Luce

Date of Birth: 1778

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.

King, John (Rev.)

Occupation: Reverend

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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John Agnew Esq^r
in
Carlisle

69 - 70
11^th October 1780
Rev^d John King &
John M^cDowell

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Sir

When I was in Carlisle in June I gave you in the names of my
Negros to be registered, I do not recollect that I wrote down their
age, besides I forgot to give in one for my father in Law

Mine are Sue about 25 I suppose & Luce about two years
old - John M^cDowell a Mulatto wench Poll about 35 years old

These I request you would register according to Law and
oblige your humble Servant
John King
Oct^r 9^th 1780

Registry

11^th Oct^r 1780

	69 Rev^d John King Peters Township
203 Sue	a Negro Female Slave for Life x	25 d^o
204 Luce	a Female Negro Slave for Life x	2 d^o

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, Nos. 69-70, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 23, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA