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Registration Details

Date: 22 August 1780

Registrant: Sterret, Ralph

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Perry

Residence: Rye

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jacob

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


Grace

Date of Birth: 1765

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, Ralph

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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No 3
22d Augt 1780

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Ralph Starret of Rye Township in Cumberland
County & State of Pennsylvania Farmer hath this day
delivered in writing to the clk of the Peace for sd County
the Names of all his Negroe and Mullatoe Slaves viz:
Jacob a Negroe man aged about 21 years
Grace a Negroe Woman aged about 15 years
Augt 22d 1780 Ralph Starret

Registry



3 Ralph Starret of Rye Township Farmer

yrs of ages
11 Jacob a Negro man X 21
12 Grace a Negro Woman X 15

Augt 22d 1780

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 3, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 2, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA