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Registration Details

Date: 15 September 1791

Registrant: Nicholson, James

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Newton

Tags: suspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Diana

Date of Birth: 15 April 1791

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Sall

Race of mother: Negro

Status of mother: Lifelong Slave

Description of mother: "Negro Wench"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Nicholson, James

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 15, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 2, No. 15, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA