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Registration Details

Date: 26 October 1780

Registrant: Smith, James

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: West Pennsboro

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Absolam

Date of Birth: 1753

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Joan

Date of Birth: 1756

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Moll

Date of Birth: 1763

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Jonathan

Date of Birth: 1776

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Daniel

Date of Birth: 1778

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

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.

Smith, James

Occupation: A. C. P.; Miller

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Registry



26th Octr 1780

197 James Smith Miller Westpenns
534 Absalom a Male Negro Slave for life X 27 years
535 Joan Female Negro do X 24 do
536 Moll Female Negro do X 17 do
537 Jonathan Male Negro do X 4 do
538 Daniel Male Negro do X 2 do

Sources

  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 57, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA