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Registration Details

Date: 5 October 1780

Registrant: Awl, Jacob

Historical County: Lancaster

Modern County: Dauphin

Residence: Paxtang

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Jo

Date of Birth: 1752

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Cesar

Date of Birth: 1756

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Phillis

Date of Birth: 1755

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Peter [Peet]

Date of Birth: 1774

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Cato

Date of Birth: 1777

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Dina

Date of Birth: January 1780

Sex: Female

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.

Awl, Jacob

Occupation: Tanner

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Transcript



[Oct 5] Jacob Awl, Tanner of Paxtang Twp, Returns
as owner the following Negro & Mulattoe Slaves viz
1 Negroe man named Jo, runaway some time ago (aged 28 years
1 Negroe man  "  Ceasar aged 24 years
1  "  woman  "  Philis  "  25  " 
1  "  Boy  "  Peet  "  6  " 
1  "   "   "  Cato  "  3  " 
1  "  Girl  "  Dina  "  9 months

Sources

  • Transcript: Handwritten copy of the Register of Enslaved Persons for 1780, p. 13, Black History Collection (MG0240), MG0240_Ser01_F017, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA