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Registration Details

Date: 23 August 1780

Registrant: Poe, James

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Antrim

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Haddy

Date of Birth: February 1773

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (31 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Jacob

Date of Birth: December 1774

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (31 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Joe

Date of Birth: November 1777

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (31 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Fabbey

Date of Birth: April 1780

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (31 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Mackey

Date of Birth: 1745

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Nan

Date of Birth: 1750

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (31 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Petter

Date of Birth: 1760

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (31 Years)

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Sady

Date of Birth: 1765

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Mulatto

Status: Term Slave (31 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.

Poe, James

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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Augt 24h 1780
Jams Poe
List of Slaves

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A list of Negro & Mullatto slaves & Servants with their
ages Names & ages, the property of the subscriber of Antrim
Township, Cumbd County, in as follows Viz

Negro Mocky aged about thirty five years
Mulatto Nan aged about 30 years
Petter age 20
Pady age 15
Jacob age 5 y & 9 mths
Joe age 2 10 mths > 31 years
Fabbey age 4 mths
Haddy age 7 6 mts

Agt 23d 1780
James Poe

Registry


Names 8 James Poe Antrim Township Farmer years
37 Mocky A Negroe aged about X 35
38 Nan A Mullattoe aged about X ) 30
39 Peter aged about X ) 20
40 Pady aged about X ) 15
41 Jacob aged about X ) 5 yrs & 9 ms
42 Joe aged about X } 31 years 2 yrs & 10 ms
43 Fabbey aged about X ) 4 ms
44 Haddy aged about X ) 7 yrs & 6 ms

24th Augt 1780

Editor’s Note. The third column of this transcription represents a bracket extending from Nan to Haddy that denoted their status as bound until the age of thirty-one as opposed to being enslaved for life.

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 8, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 5, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA