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Registration Details

Date: 26 October 1780

Registrant: Nicholson, James

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Newton

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Tom

Date of Birth: 1759

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.

Nicholson, James

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Registry



26th Octr 1780

191 James Nicholson Newtown Farmer
525 Tom a Male Negro Slave for Life X 21 years

Sources

  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 56, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA