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Registration Details

Date: 30 July 1790

Registrant: Paterson, Thomas B. [Patterson, Thomas B.]

Historical County: Allegheny

Modern County: Unspecified

Residence: Unspecified

Tags:

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Peter

Date of Birth: 11 August 1789

Sex: Unspecified

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.

Cunningham, John

Occupation: Unspecified

Relation to registrant: unknown


Document Transcriptions

Transcript



[page 19]

No. 44.

Sir…Please to Enter in your office
agreeably
To Act of Assembly one Negro Child named
Peter Born the 11th or 12th of August
1789 and oblidge yourse

James Brisson Clk Q.S.     John Cunningham
A County

John Cunningham sworn to the truth of the
above Return 30th July 1790

James Brisson

Allegheny County Ss. 1.

On the 30th of July 1790 Thomas
B. Patterson came in his Proper Person be-
fore me James Brisson Esqr one of the Jus-
tices of the Court of Common Pleas and Clark
of the Court of Quarter Session and being
duly Sworn saith upon his oath that on the
Eleventh Day of Feby 1790 he at that In-

[page 20]

stance and Request of John Cunningham
apply at the office of the Clerk of the
Peace of the County of Allegheny aforesaid
to have the above named Negro Child Entred
on Record But that the Clerk not being at
home that day it was not Done Thomas B.
Patterson Sworn & Subscribed before me
July 30th 1790 James Brisson

[…]

(1) Ss. - Stands for the compound Latin
word scilicet meaning “to wit”. It
may also be found to be abbreviated by
Sst. or Sct.

Sources

  • Transcript: Edwin N. Schenkel, "The Negro in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1813," pp. 19-20, unpublished manuscript, 1913, Detre Library and Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, PA