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Registration Details

Date: 30 October 1780

Registrant: McPherran, Thomas

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Peters

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Dolly

Date of Birth: 1735

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.

McPherran, Thomas

Occupation: Reverend

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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30 ^th Oct^r 1780
Rev^d Tho^s M^cPherran
Phillip Davis

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Rev^d Thomas M^cFerran returns to be recorded
agreeable to Law the following Negro Slave

viz^t Dolly a Female Negro Slave for life 45 y^rs
Peters Township 30^th Oct^r 1780

To John Agnew Clk
of the Peace

Thomas M^cPherran

Phillip Davis of Peters Township in the
County of Cumberland Farmer returns to be
recorded agreeable to Law the following Negro
Slave
viz Dolly a Female Negro Slave for Life
aged about 12 years
30^th Oct^r 1780

To John Agnew Clk
of the Peace Cumb^d Co^y

Phillip Davis

Registry

30^th Oct^r 1780

	278 Rev^d Thomas M^cPherran Peters
693 Dolly	a Female Negro Slave X	15 y^rs

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 278, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 73, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA