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Registration Details

Date: 27 August 1788

Registrant: Peebles, Robert

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Unclear

Residence: Shippensburg

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jo

Date of Birth: 14 August 1788

Sex: Male

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


John [Palm]

Date of Birth: 29 May 1780

Sex: Male

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Ruth

Date of Birth: 25 July 1782

Sex: Female

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Nell

Date of Birth: 25 September 1784

Sex: Female

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Pegg

Date of Birth: 30 August 1786

Sex: Female

Race: Unspecified

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

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.

Peebles, Robert

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Return



[front]

No 5
Robert Peoples
Shipps

Retn of his
Negros
27h Augt 1788

[back]

x Palm Born may 29 1780
x Ruth Born July 25 1782
x Nell Born Septemr 25 1784


x Pegg Born August 30 1788 x Jo Born August 14 1788

a Just and true return of the names and
ages of my Negro’s
27h Augt 1788
Robert Peebles

Registry


Owners Townships occupatn Males Females when born time of entering
5 Robert Peebles Shippn Farmer Palm 29th May 1780 Augt 27h 1788
The Same Joe 14 Augt 1788 Augt 27h 1788
The Same Ruth 25th July 1782
The Same Nell 25h Sept 1784
The Same Pegg 30th Augt 1786

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. 2, No. 5, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA