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Registration Details

Date: 10 October 1780

Registrant: Sterret, Cairns

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Peters

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Will

Date of Birth: 1759

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Candis

Date of Birth: 1762

Sex: Female

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.

Sterret, Cairns

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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74
12th October 1780
Cairns Starret

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A List of Negro & Mullatto Slaves the property
of Keins Sterret Peters Township in Cumberland
With their Names and Ages to be Registred in the
County Books for the county afsd agreeable to
an Act if Assembly passed March last for
Recording a Negroes - Octr 10th 1780

Viz
Will Negro man a Slave Aged ^ ^years Age^ 21
Candis a Negro Wench a Slave 18

Cairns Sterett

Registry



12 Octr 1780

74 Cairns Starret Peters Farmer
2122 Will a Male Negro Slave for Life 21 do
213 Candis a Female Negro Slave for Life 18 do

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 74, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 24, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA