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Registration Details

Date: 24 October 1780

Registrant: McFarland, James (Capt.)

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: West Pennsboro

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jack

Date of Birth: 1752

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Venus

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


Doll

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


Ned

Date of Birth: 1768

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Cezar

Date of Birth: 1771

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Pompey

Date of Birth: 1774

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Dick

Date of Birth: 1777

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Dinah

Date of Birth: February 1780

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.

McFarland, James (Capt.)

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Registry



24th Octr 1780

159 Capt James McFarland West Penns Farmr
456 Jack a Male Negro Slave for Life X 28 yrs
457 Venis a Female Negro Slave do X 25 do
458 Doll a Female Negro Slave do X 14 do
459 Ned a Male Negro Slave do X 12 do
460 Cezar a Male Negro Slave do X 9 do
461 Pompey a Male Negro Slave do X 6 do
462 Dick a Male Negro Slave do X 3 do
463 Dinah aFe-Male Negro Slave do X 8 months

Editor’s Note. For Dinah’s registration, “Fe” is written over the letter “a” so that it is appended to “Male.”

Sources

  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 49, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA