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Registration Details

Date: 22 August 1780

Registrant: West, Francis

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Perry

Residence: Tyrone

Tags: Native American slavery

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Lewis

Date of Birth: 10 November 1779

Sex: Male

Race: "Mestoe"

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Debby

Date of Birth: 1730

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Sligoe

Date of Birth: 1730

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Jacob

Date of Birth: 1746

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


John

Date of Birth: 1751

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Poll

Date of Birth: 1757

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Chamont

Date of Birth: 1771

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Mila

Date of Birth: 1777

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.

West, Francis

Occupation: Esquire

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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22d Augt 1780
Francis West Esqr.
Return of Slaves

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Francis West of Tyrone Township in Cumberland
County & State of Pennsylvania Esquire hath
this Day delivered in Writing to Clerk of the Peace
for the said County the Names of all his
Mullatoe & Negro Slaves Viz-
Sligoe a Negroe aged about 50 Years
Jacob a mullato for Life abt. 34 Do
Poll a Negro Woman abt. 23 Do
Chamont a Mullatoe abt. 9 Do for Life
Milla a Mullatoe Girle abt 3 Do for Life
Lewis a Mestoe male child born November 10th. 1779 }
John & Deb A Negro abt 29 Years for Life
Debby about 50 Years a Negro Woman
August 22d
Frans West
Entered

Registry



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Francis West of Tyrone Township in Cumberland
County and State of Pennsylvania Esquire hath
this ^ day delivered in writing the names of all his
Negroe and Mullattoe Slaves viz:

No age years
1 Sligo a Negroe man aged about x 50
2 Jacob a Mullatoe Slave for life x 34
3 Poll a Negroe Woman x 23
4 Chamont a Mullatoe Slave for Life x 9
5 Mila a Mullatto Girl Slave for Life x 3
6 Lewis a Mestoe male Child slave for Life x
Born 10th November 1779 aged 1 y rm 10th Nov
9m12d
7 John a Negro man x 29
8 Debby a Negro woman x 50

August 22d 1780

Sources

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