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Registration Details

Date: 7 October 1780

Registrant: Maxwell, Patrick

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Unspecified

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jann

Date of Birth: 1745

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Cato

Date of Birth: 1746

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Cloe

Date of Birth: 1768

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Nicolas

Date of Birth: 1778

Sex: Male

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.

Maxwell, Patrick

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Return



[front]

To John Agnew Esqr

78
12th Octr 1780
Patrick Maxwell
Esqr

[back]

Sir/
I made a Return sometime ago of My
Neagroes to Mr Lyon, but I am enformed since,
that you are the Recorder, I therfor send you
this one

1 Neagroe fellow 31 years old named Cato
1 Neagro Wench 35 years named Jean
1 Do Girl 12 Do Cloe
1 Do Boy 2 Do Nicolas

from your Humble Servt
Octr the 7th 1780

Pattr Maxwell

Registry



12 Octr 1780

78 Patrick Maxwell Esqr Farmer
224 Cato a Male Negro Slave for Life X 34 do
225 Jean a Female Negro Slave for Life X 35 do
226 Cloe a Female Negro Slave for Life X 12 do
227 Nicolas a Male Negro Slave for Life X 2 do

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 78, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 25, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA