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Registration Details

Date: 5 October 1780

Registrant: Taylor, William

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Franklin

Residence: Fannett

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Leonard

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


Enslaver(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Taylor, William

Occupation: Farmer

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Return



[front of first document]

12th Octr 1780
William Taylor

[back of first document]

R
A Return of a negroe Man the property of William Taylor of
Fannet Township Cumberland County
Leonard ^ ^a Negroe Man^ about Twenty seven years of age

To John Agnew Esqr
Clerk of the Sessions for
Cumberland County

Octr 5th 1780
William Taylor

[front of second document]

The Clark of the
peace of the County
of Cumberland

73
26 October 1780
William Taylor

[back of second document]

to the Clarke of the peace of the County of Cumberland
Sr I William Taylor of fanet township Cumberland County and
Steat of pencelvania farmer having one ^ Negroe man Slave for
Neamed Lenard twenty Seven years of age and I Desior
he may Be Recorded acording to Law William Taylor

Nov
october the 4th 1780

not the man is black

Editor’s Note. There are two copies of this return with slightly different phrasings.

Registry



12 Octr 1780

73 William Taylor Fannet Farmer
211 Leonard a Male Negro Slave for life 27 do

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 73, 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