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Registration Details

Date: 27 October 1780

Registrant: Cesna, James

Historical County: Cumberland

Modern County: Cumberland

Residence: Hopewell

Tags: surname

Registered Individual(s)

Details given are as recorded in the registration.

Dina

Date of Birth: 13 July 1780

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Term Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Eag, Will

Date of Birth: 1745

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Rachel

Date of Birth: 1748

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Castul

Date of Birth: 1773

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Georg

Date of Birth: 1775

Sex: Male

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Hanah

Date of Birth: 1770?

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

Status: Lifelong Slave

Name of mother: Unspecified

Race of mother: Unspecified

Status of mother: Unspecified

Description of mother: Unspecified


Pomp

Date of Birth: Unspecified

Sex: Female

Race: Negro

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.

Cesna, John

Occupation: Yeoman

Relation to registrant: relative


Document Transcriptions

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27h Octr 1780
John Cesna

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October 27 1780 1780

Sr the Eages of my negurs
In as [much] as I can tell is
on Caled will eag thirty
five an Called Rachel
thirty too and on Called
Pomp twelve past and
on Called hanah goin in
teen and on goun in
Seven and Called
Castell and on Called
georg gwon in five
Years and ^ on named dina
three months and too
weeks old

to. mr Egnus
this with the
Beror James Cesna
John Cesna

Registry



27th Octr 1780

218 John Cesna Hopewell Yeoman
Will in Zak 581 Eag a Male ^ Negro Slave for Life X 35 yrs
582 Rachel a Female Negro Slave X 32 do
583 Pomp a Male Negro do X 12 do
584 Hannah a Female Negro do X 10 do
585 Castul a Male do do X 7 do
586 George a Male Negro do X 5 do

10th Novr 1792
Jno Cesna a Female Named Dina aged 3 months 2 Weeks omitted in first Record & now entd by Saml Postlethwait

Editor’s Note. Dina’s registration is inserted perpendicular to the other entries along the right-hand edge of the page.

Sources

  • Enslaver return: Slave Returns, No. 218, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA
  • Clerk registry: Slave and Slaveowner Register, vol. 1, p. 61, Records of the Clerk of Courts, Cumberland County Archives, Carlisle, PA