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Registration Details

Date: 12 October 1780

Registrant: McFarland, Robert

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: West Pennsboro

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Tom

Date of Birth: 1766

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Phillis

Date of Birth: 1773

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, Robert

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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[front]

82-83
12th October 1780
Saml Finlay &
Robt Mc Farland

Negroes Belonging to Robr McFarland
Viz Negro Tom aged 17 years
Negro Phillis aged 13 years

[back]

Negro Belonging to Samuel Findlay
of Peters
Farmer & Storek

Viz Kate aged 18 years
June aged 13 years
Tom aged 10 years

Cartified by
Saml Findley

To John Agnew Esrr

Editor’s Note. Robert McFarland’s return on the front page of this document is written upside-down.

Registry



12th October 1780

82 Robert McFarland Peters Farmer
236 Tom a Negro Male Slave for Life X 17 years
237 Phillis a Female Negro Slave for Life X 13 do

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 82, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 27, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA