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Registration Details

Date: 26 October 1780

Registrant: McFarland, James

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Peters

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Venus

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.

McFarland, James

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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27th Octr 1780
J S McFarland

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One Negro wench Named Venus aged
Elevan years the property of the subscriber

October 26th 1780
James McFarlan

Registry



27th Octr 1780

223 218 James McFarland Peters Farmer
595 Venus a Female Negro Slave X 11 do

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 223, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 62, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA