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Registration Details

Date: 22 September 1780

Registrant: Miller, Robert

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Carlisle

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Dorby [Darby]

Date of Birth: 1740

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Violet

Date of Birth: 1740

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Toby

Date of Birth: 1740

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Abraham

Date of Birth: 1776

Sex: Unspecified

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.

Miller, Robert

Occupation: Tanner

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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29
22 Sepr 1780
Robt Miller
list of Slaves

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In pursuance of the 'Act for the gradual
Abolition of Slavery" Robert Miller of the Town
of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland Tanner
doth hereby enter with the Clerk of the Sessions
of the said County

Darby ^ aged 40 yrs & Violet his wife ^ Slaves aged about 40
1 Toby a slave aged 40 yrs
Abraham a slave 4 years

To
John Agnew Esqr

Registry



22d Sepr 1780

No 29 Robert Miller Carlisle Tanner age
100 Darby a Negro Slave X 40
101 Violet a Negro Slave X 40
102 Toby a Negro Slave X 40
103 Abraham a Negro Slave X 4

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 29, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 12, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA