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Registration Details

Date: 26 February 1790

Registrant: Carson, Margaret

Historical County: Dauphin

Modern County: Dauphin

Residence: Paxtang

Tags: late

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sam

Date of Birth: August 1789

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave (28 Years)

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.

Carson, Margaret

Occupation: Wife

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Return



Dauphin County ss.

Be it remembered that on the twenty Sixth day of February
AD. 1790 Mrs Carson the Wife of John Carson of Paxton Township in the
County of Dauphin Esqr enters and returns upon Oath Agreeably to the
Act of Assembly one male Negro Child Named Sam born Sometime
in the month of August last

A true Extract of the Record

Registry



paid

Be it remembered that on this twenty sixth day of February
Anno Domini 1790 Mrs Carson ^ the Wife of Mr Carson of Paxton Township in the County
of Dauphin Esquire enter and returns upon Oath agreeably to
the Act of Assembly one male Negro Child named Sam born
Some time in the Month of August last.

Test.
Witness
Alex Graydon

Margaret Carson
N.B. Mr Carson entered the same Negro
before me in Philada
Alex Graydon

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Loose Documents, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Slave Records, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Clerk registry: Bound Volume, p. 12, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Slave Records, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI