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Registration Details

Date: 24 October 1780

Registrant: Whitehill, Robert

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: East Pennsboro

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Paco

Date of Birth: 1750

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.

Whitehill, Robert

Occupation: Esquire

Relation to registrant: self

Document Transcriptions

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John Agnew Esquire
Hau^d by
M^rAdam Weaver
Carlisle
4^th Oct^r 1780
Robert Whitehill Esqu

[back]

Philad’a Oct^r 16^th 1780

Sir
XXX Conncquence of the Law
for the [gradual] abolition of slavery,
I send you XXX of one Negro man
Named Paco aged about 30 years and
my place of residence you know
in East pennssbro Township Cumberland
County, XXX I request you to XXX

I am XXX XXX

Hunn^h Serv^t

John Agnew Esq
Rob^t Whitehill

Editors Note: the front page of the document has the words “4^th Oct^r 1780, Robert Whitehill Esqu” along the left hand side of the document. The entire document is also difficult to discern due to the amount of tears in the document.

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 161, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 49, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA