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Registration Details

Date: 18 October 1780

Registrant: Dorsey, Joseph

Historical County: Westmoreland

Modern County: Unspecified

Residence: Unspecified

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Frederick

Date of Birth: April 1779

Sex: Male

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Charles

Date of Birth: 1750

Sex: Male

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Phil

Date of Birth: 1748

Sex: Male

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Aaron

Date of Birth: 1761

Sex: Male

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Tom

Date of Birth: 1761

Sex: Male

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Casse

Date of Birth: 1755

Sex: Male

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Jane

Date of Birth: 1752

Sex: Female

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Pompey

Date of Birth: 1768

Sex: Male

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Rachel

Date of Birth: 1774

Sex: Female

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Phillis

Date of Birth: 1776

Sex: Female

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


George

Date of Birth: 1778

Sex: Male

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


James

Date of Birth: April 1780

Sex: Male

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Unclear

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Harmer

Date of Birth: May 1780

Sex: Male

Race: Likely Negro

Status: Unclear

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.

Dorsey, Joseph

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

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Memorandum
when the Negroes
of Joseph Dorsey
were recorded

Recorded 18th October 1780

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By the Records of Westmoreland County it appears that the Negroes
of Joseph Dorsey as follows, viz

Charles, Phill, Aaron, Tom, Casse, Jane, Pompey, Rachel
Phillis, George, Frederick, James & Harmer were recorded
1780 October 18th

Publication



APPENDIX “A.”
[See Chapter XI.]
A LIST OF NEGRO AND MULATTO SLAVES
Registered in Westmoreland County pursuant to an Act of Assembly of the
State of Pennsylvania, entitled “An act for the gradual abolition of
slavery,” passed the
1st day of March, A.D. 1780, and to an Act of As-
sembly entitled " An act to redress certain grievances within the counties
of Westmoreland and Washington," passed the
13th day of April, A.D.
1782.1

[…]

Oct. 18, 1780.

JOSEPH DORSEY. Male, 30, Charles; male, 32, Phil; male, 19, Aaron;
male, 19, Tom; male, 25, Casse; female, 28, Jane; male, 12, Pompey;
female 6, Rachel; female, 4, Phillis; male, 2, George; male, 1 1/2,
Frederick; male, 1/2, James; male, 5 months, Harmer.

[…]


1 The date of entry is first given, then the names of owners in SMALL
CAPITALS, followed by the sex, age, and name of the slave.

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Enslaver returns and correspondence, 1782-1865, Folder 1, Box XV-J-238, Historical Collection, Washington & Jefferson College Special Collections, Washington, PA
  • Publication: George Dallas Albert, ed., History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania: With Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), 447