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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