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Registration Details

Date: 30 October 1780

Registrant: McCune, James

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Unspecified

Residence: Unspecified

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Chloe

Date of Birth: 1730

Sex: Female

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.

Bryan, Alex (Estate)

Occupation: Deceased

Relation to registrant: executor

Document Transcriptions

Return

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276
30^th Oct^r 1780

Ja^s M^cCune Esq^r
of Alex^r Bryans
dec^d

thomas akin
£-3"14-0

Acknowleded march 1761
Harm^s Alricks

Editor’s Note. The section commencing “thomas akin” is written perpendicular to the return heading along the left-hand edge. It appears that James McCune tore and repurposed an older legal document to compose his registration of Chloe.

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James M^cCune ~~& Ala~~ one of the Exec^rs of
Alex^r Bryans dec^d returns the following
Negro Slave as the property of s^d dec^d Estate
to be recorded agreeable to Law viz
Chloe a Female Negro aged about 50 years
to be free in 9 y^rs from the 10^th May 1777

30^th Oct^r 1780

James M^cCune Ex^r

Registry

30^th Oct^r 1780

	281 James M^cCune Ex^r of Alex^r Bryans dec^d
696 Chloe	a Female Negro to be free in 12 y^rs from 10^th May 1777 by the will of s^d dec^d x	50 y^rs

Sources

Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 281, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 73, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA