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Registration Details

Date: 22 August 1801

Registrant: Postlethwait, Samuel [Postlethwaite, Samuel]

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Carlisle

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sampson

Date of Birth: 22 August 1801

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto; Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

Name of mother: Doll

Race of mother: Mulatto

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: "Mulatto Wench"


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Postlethwait, Samuel [Postlethwaite, Samuel]

Occupation: Esquire

Relation to registrant: self


Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 137, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 2, No. 137, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA