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Registration Details

Date: 28 October 1780

Registrant: Thornburgh, Joseph

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: West Pennsboro

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Ben

Date of Birth: 1755

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.

Thornburgh, Joseph

Occupation: Iron Master

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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28^th Oct^r 1780
Joⁿ Thornburgh

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Carlisle Oct^r 28^th 1780 This may Certify that I
Possess’d of Negro Slave calld Ben about Twenty
Five Years of age, he bring now at Pine Grove
Furnace in West Pennsborough Township

Cumland County

Joseph Thornburgh
Iron Master

Registry

28^th Oct^r 1780

	264 ~~259~~ Joseph Thornburgh Iron Mas^r W. Penns^o	age
679 Ben	a Male Negro Slave X	25 y^rs

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 264, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 71, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA