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Registration Details

Date: 6 October 1780

Registrant: Watts, Frederick

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Perry

Residence: Rye

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jemima

Date of Birth: 16 February 1762

Sex: Female

Race: Mulatto

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.

Watts, Frederick

Occupation: Esquire

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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6th October 1780
Col. Fredk Watts

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To William Lyon Esquire Clerk of the peace for
the County of Cumberland

I the Subscriber of Rye Town Ship Cumberland
County do in conformity to an Act of General Assembly of
Pennsylvania passed the first day of March 1780 for the Gradual
Abolition of Slavery return in order to be recorded, a Mulatto
Servant Wench named Jemima aged Eighteen years the Sixteenth
day of February Last Witness my hand this 4th day of October 1780
October 1780

Frederick Watts

Registry



6 October

46 Col. Frederick Watts Rye Township years
153 Jemima a Mullatto Servant Wench aged 18 yrs 16th Feby last

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 46, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 17, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA