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Registration Details

Date: 23 August 1780

Registrant: Pawling, Henry

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Antrim

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Bob

Date of Birth: October 1779

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Prudence

Date of Birth: December 1779

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Cezar

Date of Birth: 1724

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Sam

Date of Birth: 1746

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Cate

Date of Birth: 1748

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Tom

Date of Birth: 1752

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Tom

Date of Birth: 1754

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Jim

Date of Birth: 1759

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Dine

Date of Birth: 1762

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Pegg

Date of Birth: 1765

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Bella

Date of Birth: 1765

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Nance

Date of Birth: 1768

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Jack

Date of Birth: 1776

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Bet

Date of Birth: 1778

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

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.

Pawling, Henry

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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5
Aug t 24h 1780
Henry Pawling
return of Slaves

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Return of Negroe & Mullatoe Slaves and their names
and ages registered as the property of Henry Pawling of
the County of Cumberland

Negroe Cezar aged about Fifty Six Years
Sam aged about Thirty Four
Cate aged about Thirty Two
Jim aged about Twenty Eight
Tom s aged about Twenty Six
Tom Jun aged about Twenty One
Dina aged about Eighteen
Pegg aged about Fifteen
Negroe Bella aged about Fifteen
Nance aged about Twelve
Jack aged Four
Bet aged Two
Bob aged Twelve Months
Negroe Purdence aged Ten Months

Henry Pawling
August the 23d 1780

Registry


Names of Slaves 5(5) Henry Pawling of Antrim Township in the County of Cumberland Farmer Years
14 Cezar a Negroe Man aged about X 56
15 Sam a Negroe Mullatoe Man X 34
16 Cate aged about X 32
17 Jim aged about X 28
18 Tom s aged about X 26
19 Tom Jun aged about X 21
20 Dine aged about X 18
21 Pegg aged about X 15
22 Bella a Negroe aged about X 15
23 Nance a Mullatoe aged about X 12
24 Jack aged about X 4
25 Bet aged about X 2
26 Bob aged about X 1
27 Prudence a Negroe aged about X 10 Ms

Augt 24th 1780

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 5, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 3, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA