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Registration Details

Date: 27 January 1794

Registrant: McFarlane, Andrew

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Allegheny

Residence: Mifflin

Tags: surnamesuspicious

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

More, Tom

Date of Birth: 30 July 1793

Sex: Male

Race: Mulatto

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.

McFarlane, Andrew

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Transcript



No. 60.

Tom More Born 30th July 1793 belonging
to your humble Servent. Andrew McFarlane

James Brisson Clk. Q.S…
A County January 27th 1794

A McFarlane of Mifflen Township Sworn to
the truth of the entry before me

James Brisson



continuation of the above

Sir
I have made several attempts to visit your
office at Pittsburgh in order to Record
a Mullatto Male Child Named Tom More Born
30th July 1793. it being the Sone of aslave
for life by law    The time being Nearly Expired
has sent my wife who was Present when he was
Born in order if Proof is necessary she can
be qualefied to the time. I am Sir with James
Brisson Clk Q.S. Respect yours Se
Jany 27th 1794 A. McFarlane

Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," p. 26, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA