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Registration Details

Date: 1780

Registrant: Chesney, William

Historical County: York

Modern County: York

Residence: Newberry

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Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Sall

Date of Birth: 1760

Sex: Female

Race: Unspecified

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Unspecified

Date of Birth: Unspecified

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Unspecified

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Unspecified

Date of Birth: Unspecified

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Unspecified

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Unspecified

Date of Birth: Unspecified

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Unspecified

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Unspecified

Date of Birth: Unspecified

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Unspecified

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Unspecified

Date of Birth: Unspecified

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Unspecified

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Unspecified

Date of Birth: Unspecified

Sex: Unspecified

Race: Unspecified

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.

Chesney, William

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: self


Document Transcriptions

Publication



Slave
Owners.

The following are the names of
persons in York, who owned
slaves in 1780, together with the
number owned by each individual:

William
Chesney, of Newberry, who owned the ferry
below New Market, 7 (he was the only
slave-owner in the township at that time,
which included Fairview)

Other



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York County
Copy under seal
Registry of Negroes

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Names of Owners Occupations
&
Professions
Residence Names of
Slaves for
Life
Ages of
Slaves
for
Life
Sexes When Enter’d
William Chesney Yeoman Newbury
Township
Sall Twenty Years. Female October 31st AD. 1780.

In testimony that the foregoing is a true copy as taken from and
Compared with the Original record, or Books, Containing the Registry of
Negroes, for Life, Remaining in the office of the Clerk of the Courts of
Quarter Sessions in and for the County of York

I have hereunto set my hand, and the seal of the said Court
the tenth day of April In the Year of our Lord, one thousand
Eight hundred and twenty eight

Jacob Spangler Clerk

Sources

  • Publication: George R. Prowell, History of York County, Pennsylvania, vol. 1 (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1907), 591
  • Other: Overseers of the Poor of York County, Appellants v. Overseers of the Poor of Monroe Township, Cumberland County Court of Quarter Sessions, April Term 1828, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Indictments, Item 1828.329.04, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA