From Enslavement
  to Freedom
   
Black man in colonial clothing chopping wood.

A series of pages exploring
various aspects of enslavement in Pennsylvania

Enslavement in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Slaveholders Listed on this Page

  1. Unknown Slaveholders (Slaves listed: Joe, Bett, Hetty, Dinah, Peter, Jeff, Lucey, Madis, Irenia)
  2. Not specified, Gettysburg (Slave listed:  Mulatto Girl)
  3. Not specified, Adams County (Slave listed:  "Colored Girl")
  4. Not specified, Gettysburg (Slave listed:  Ralph)
  5. Not specified, Littlestown (Slave listed:  Leonard)
  6. Agnew, James, Sr.  (Slaves listed:  unnamed slave)
  7. Agnew, James, Jr.  (Slaves listed:  unnamed slave)
  8. Bender, Peter (Slaves listed: Nelly)
  9. Black, James (Slaves listed: Maria Norris)
  10. Brough, Peter (Slaves listed: Phebe, Charles)
  11. Brown, Andrew (Slaves listed: Grace, Joe, Joshua, one unnamed slave)
  12. Brown, Richard (Slaves listed: Tom, Betty, John, Rosanna, Nero, Orlando, Jem, Sam)
  13. Campbell, Armstrong (Slaves listed: Samuel)
  14. Carnahan, Alexander (Slaves listed: Dine, George, Philip, one unnamed slave)
  15. Chamberlain, Neiman (Slaves listed: Fene)
  16. Clark, John  (Slaves listed:  unnamed slave)
  17. Cobean, Samuel (Slaves listed: Hagey, Doll, Tom, Dinah, other unnamed slaves)
  18. Cochran, James (Slaves listed:  unnamed slave)
  19. Cooper, William (Slaves listed: Isaac)
  20. Cross, Samuel  (Slaves listed:  unnamed female slave)
  21. Dobbin, Alexander (Slaves listed: Becky, Eliza, Sall, Amy)
  22. Dunwiddie, Jane (Slaves listed:  one unnamed slave)
  23. Finley, Margaret (Slaves listed: Jem, John, Moses, Ann)
  24. Fletcher, John  (Slaves listed:  unnamed female slave)
  25. Gorley, Thomas (Slaves listed:  unnamed slave)
  26. Graft, Philip  (Slaves listed:  Sam Armstrong)
  27. Hall, Edward (Slaves listed:  unnamed female)
  28. Herman, John (Slaves listed: Samuel, Jonas)
  29. Hersey, Jacob (Slaves listed:  unnamed slave)
  30. Hersh, John (Slaves listed: Harry)
  31. Higas, George (Slaves listed:  unnamed slave)
  32. Hoffman, Henry (Slaves listed: Matthew)
  33. Hoke, Conrad, Jr.  (Slaves listed:  unnamed male slave)
  34. Hoke, Henry  (Slaves listed:  unnamed male slave)
  35. Horner, Alexander (Slaves listed: Aaron, Tom, Peter)
  36. Horner, David (Slaves listed: Cyrus)
  37. Horner, Mary (Slaves listed: Ivory)
  38. Horner, William (Slaves listed: Abraham, unnamed woman, unnamed child)
  39. Houlsworth, Samuel (Slaves listed: Bob)
  40. Ickes, Peter (Slaves listed:  one unnamed)
  41. Johnson, Lewis (Slaves listed: Stephen)
  42. Kelleberger, John (Slaves listed: Eliza)
  43. Kitzmiller, George (Slaves listed:  unnamed)
  44. Lashells, Ralph (Slave listed:  Nat Johnston)
  45. Lilly, Samuel (Slaves listed: Stephen, Fanny, Rachael, Henry, Benjamin, Mary Ann, Edward, Margaret)
  46. Long, Alexander (Slaves listed: Pheb)
  47. Long, Jannet (Slaves listed: Julian)
  48. Marshall, James  (Slaves listed:  unnamed slave)
  49. Maxwell, William  (Slaves listed:  unnamed female slave)
  50. McClean, Moses (Slaves listed: Sele, Amy, unnamed woman)
  51. McGiney, Mary (Slaves listed: Venus)
  52. McGinley, Salley (Slaves listed: Letty)
  53. McKasson, William (Slaves listed: Nany)
  54. McKesson, Alexander (Slaves listed: Poll, Sidney, unnamed slave)
  55. McKesson, James Jr. (Slaves listed: Charles, Margaret, unnamed slave)
  56. McPherren, Ann (Slaves listed: Jake, Nell, Juley, Matty, Mint)
  57. McPherson, Agnes (Slaves listed:  one unnamed female and one unnamed male)
  58. McPherson, Robert (Slaves listed:  one unnamed male)
  59. McPherson, William (Slaves listed:  Jim, unnamed male slaves)
  60. McSherry, James (Slaves listed:  Four unnamed slaves)
  61. Moore, James, Sr. (Slaves listed:  unnamed young slaves)
  62. Moore, James, Jr. (Slaves listed:  unnamed young slaves)
  63. Mundorf, Jacob (Slaves listed: William, Cesar, Sally)
  64. Murphy, John, Jailor (Slaves listed: Harry Jackson, Will, Bob, Jack, Ned Butler, Charles)
  65. Neely, James (Slaves listed: Venus, Lene, George, Phillis, Hannah)
  66. Neely, Jonathan (Slaves listed: Gustavus V. Ivory)
  67. Patton, John (Slaves listed: Abner)
  68. Porter, Jeremiah (Slaves listed: Sade, George, unnamed slaves)
  69. Porter, William (Slaves listed: Haney, unnamed slave)
  70. Ramsey, Reynolds  (Slaves listed:  one unnamed female)
  71. Reid, William  (Slaves listed:  unnamed slave)
  72. Rhea, Robert (Slaves listed: Elce, Dinah, Ruth)
  73. Ross, John (Slaves listed: Bob, Jem)
  74. Russell, Alexander (Slaves listed:  unnamed female)
  75. Scott, James (Slaves listed: Joe, Sophia, one unnamed female, one unnamed male)
  76. Sherman, George (Slaves listed: Jem, Sam)
  77. Slagle, David  (Slaves listed:  one unnamed)
  78. Stewart, John (Slaves listed: Isaac)
  79. Sweney, Isaac (Slaves listed: Henry Hall)
  80. Sweney, Thomas (Slaves listed: Sylvina)
  81. Waugh, David (Slaves listed: Phebe, Jack, unnamed slave)
  82. Weakly, William (Slaves listed: Betty)
  83. Weems, Thomas (Slaves listed:  Will, Catty)
  84. Wilson, David (Slaves listed: Eli, Jude, unnamed slave)
  85. Wilson, Hugh  (Slaves listed:  one unnamed slave)
  86. Wilson, Thomas (Slaves listed: Peggy)
  87. Worley, Joseph (Slaves listed: Harry)

Enslavement Data 

  • Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
    City or Township:
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."

       
    1. Slave Name: Joe
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1801, February 15
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: 
      Slave Notes: 
      Date of Record: May 28, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: "A" surname, unknown
    City or Township:
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."

       
    1. Slave Name: Bett
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1802, January 01
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Molattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: March 15, 1802
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
    City or Township:
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."

       
    1. Slave Name: Hetty
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, April 14
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: July 14, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
    City or Township:
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."

       
    1. Slave Name: Dinah
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1804, May 10
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 10, 1804
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
    City or Township:
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."

       
    1. Slave Name: Peter
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1806, December 29
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: April 21, 1807
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
    City or Township:
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."

       
    1. Slave Name: Jeff
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1809, August 07
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulatto"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 27, 1809
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
    City or Township:
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."

       
    1. Slave Name: Lucey
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: One month old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1811, November 05
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: December 06, 1811
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
    City or Township:
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."

       
    1. Slave Name: Madis
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1813, January 07
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulatto"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: April 08, 1813
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
    City or Township:
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."

       
    1. Slave Name: Irenia
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1820, March 03
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: August 09, 1820
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
     
  • Slaveholder Name:  Not specified--Gettysburg
    City or Township:  Borough of Gettysburg
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Unnamed owner placed the following ad in the Adams Sentinel offering for sale an 18-year old "Mulatto girl":

    FOR SALE, A Mulatto Girl, EIGHTEEN years of age, who has to serve until 28.  She is well acquainted with all kinds of house work.  Enquire of the Printer.
    July 1.
    Source:  "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.  This advertisement ran in the Adams Centinel (Gettysburg), 16 July 1817.
     
  • Slave ad from the Adams (Gettysburg) Sentinel, 27 January 1830Slaveholder Name:  Not specified--Gettysburg
    City or Township:  Borough of Gettysburg
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Unnamed owner placed the following ad in the Adams Sentinel offering for sale a young "Colored Girl":
    THE TIME OF A COLORED GIRL,
    WHO has four years to serve, will be disposed of.  Assurances can be given that she is strictly honest.--.
    Inquire of the PRINTER.
    Source:  Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg), 27 January 1830.

     
  • Slaveholder Name:  Not specified--Gettysburg
    City or Township:  Gettysburg borough
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  The following slave was jailed in Gettysburg in 1810, released, then committed to the same jail again before escaping:

    50 DOLLARS REWARD, AND all reasonable charges, will be paid for apprehending, and delivering to me, in Caroline county, State of Virginia, 14 miles below the town of Fredericksburg, A Negro Man Slave named RALPH, who ranaway about the 1st of November last, who was apprehended and committed to the jail of Adams county, in the State of Pennsylvania in April last, on suspicion of his being a runaway, and was discharged by the Court of Common Pleas, at Gettysburg, on Tuesday the 29th of May, 1810, no person appearing to claim him.  He was afterwards apprehended and committed to said jail as a runaway on an advertisement in the National Intelligencer, describing him--and on the 30th day of last month made his escape over the jail wall.
    --RALPH is of a dark complexion, between 30 and 40 years of age, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, two of his upper fore teeth out, and has a large scar on the outside of his right leg, occasioned by the cut of a scythe.  He is an artful cunning fellow, and I expect when accosted will shew a discharge from the Prothonotary of Adams county for John Scott and Robert Wheeler, which last name he passed by when first apprehended, which said discharge is signed by James Duncan, Esquire, Prothonotary, with the County seal affixed thereto, and dated the 1st day of June, 1810.
    --Or I will give a reward of 40 dollars for securing him in jail so that I get him when called for, and information given me by letter directed to the "Post-Office, Villesbro', Caroline County, Va."  It is probable he will aim for Philadelphia or Baltimore.
    --As to his cloathing it is not remembered--He is a good sawyer, a rough Carpenter and Shoemaker, but has been accustomed to labour on a farm.
    --All masters of vessels are forbid carrying him off, and all persons from employing said slave.
    MARK C. WOODFORD.  July 24, 1810.
    Source:  "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.
     
  • Slaveholder Name:  Not specified--near Littlestown
    City or Township:  Littlestown
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Jacob Winrott placed the following ad seeking the owner of a horse that was seized from a runaway slave captured near Littlestown:

    ADVERTISEMENT. WAS taken out of the custody of a Negro man, named LEONARD, who was apprehended as a Runaway and confessed he belonged to a certain Mr. George Colbert, near Bladensburg, Maryland,
    A small Bay Horse, about 14 hands high, low in flesh, two hind feet white; about six or seven years old, and shod before, &c.  The owner is desired to come, prove property, pay charges and take him away, by me
    JACOB WINROTT, Littlestown, Adams county,
    February 16, 1813.
    Source:  "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Agnew, James, Sr.
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for "one slave" in 1802.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1802
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "slave"
      Slave Notes:  
      Date of Record:  1802
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Agnew, James, Jr.
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for "one slave" in 1802.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1802
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "slave"
      Slave Notes:  
      Date of Record:  1802
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Bender, Peter
    City or Township: Berwick Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Nelly
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1808, February 11
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: May 03, 1808
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Black, James
    City or Township: Franklin Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Norris, Maria
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1811, April (a)
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulatoe"
      Slave Notes:
      County: Clerk's notation for "When Born" was "middle of April 1811."
      Date of Record: July 10, 1811
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Brough, Peter
    City or Township: Berwick Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Miller
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Phebe
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1807, March 17
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: August 18, 1807
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Charles
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1809, January 04
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: April 17, 1809
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Brown, Andrew
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:  Andrew Brown was assessed for one slave in 1802.  That slave is not listed below.

       
    1. Slave Name: Grace
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, March 16
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: June 23, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Joe
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1804, November 17
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: April 27, 1805
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Joshua
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1807, November 12
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: March 28, 1808
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Brown, Richard
    City or Township: Straban Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Tom
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1801, August (a)
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes: The clerk's notation for "When Born" is "latter end of Augt or beginning of Sept last."
      Date of Record: December 24, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Betty
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: About two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1802, May (a)
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      County: Clerk's notation for "When Born" was "last week in May last."
      Date of Record: August 10, 1802
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: John
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, April 25
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 11, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    4. Slave Name: Rosanna
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1804, April (a)
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      County: Clerk's notation for "When Born" was "last week in Apl 1804."
      Date of Record: September 01, 1804
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    5. Slave Name: Nero
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1805, September (a)
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      County: Clerk's notation for "When Born" was "last week in Sept. 1805."
      Date of Record: January 13, 1806
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    6. Slave Name: Orlando
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1808, September 15 (a)
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      County: Clerk's notation for "When Born" was "abt 15th Sept. 1808."
      Date of Record: January 18, 1809
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    7. Slave Name: Jem
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1810, February (a)
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      County: Clerk's notation for "When Born" was "latter end of Feby 1810."
      Date of Record: May 10, 1810
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    8. Slave Name: Sam
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1812, May 4 or 5
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      County: Clerk's notation for "When Born" was "4 or 5th May 1812."
      Date of Record: August 22, 1812
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Campbell, Armstrong
    City or Township: Straban Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Samuel
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: One month old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1816, October 24 or 25
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: December 14, 1816
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Carnahan, Alexander
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Cooper
    Notes:  Alex Carnahan was assessed for one slave in 1802.  That slave is not listed below.

       
    1. Slave Name: Dine
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: One month old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1802, January 03
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: February 06, 1802
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: George
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: One month old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, February 05
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: March 07, 1804
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Philip
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: One month old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1809, January 18
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: February 24, 1809
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Chamberlain, Neiman
    City or Township: Mount Pleasant Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Fene (or Tene)
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five days old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1807, February 13
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: February 18, 1807
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Clark, John
    City or Township: Liberty Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for "one negro" in 1801, valued at $120.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1801
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:   Valued at $120 in 1801.
      Date of Record:  1801
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Cobean, Samuel
    City or Township: Franklin Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes: With the Registration of Dinah in 1807, Cobean's township was listed as Cumberland.  Cobean was assessed for two slaves, valued at $160, in 1799.  Neither of those slaves are listed below.  The Septennial Census of 1800 lists two taxable slaves (slaves between the ages of 12 and 45) with Cobean:  a male slave "above age 45," and a female slave, "aged 30."

       
    1. Slave Name: Hagey
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1799, November 05
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: April 14, 1800
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Doll
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1802, August 03
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 12, 1802
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Tom
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1804, September 30
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: January 14, 1805
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    4. Slave Name: Dinah
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1806, September 25
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: February 16, 1807
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Cochran, James
    City or Township: Liberty Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for "one negro" in 1801, valued at $190.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1801
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:   Valued at $190 in 1801.
      Date of Record:  1801
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Cooper, William
    City or Township: Mount Pleasant Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Isaac
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: One month old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1806, August 18
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Molattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 02, 1806
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Cross, Samuel
    City or Township: Franklin Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for one slave in 1799, valued at $75.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Female
      Slave Age: "above age 45" in 1800
      Slave Date of Birth:   before 1755 (estimated from 1800 Septennial Census)
      Slave Status:  Slave for life
      Slave Description: "slave"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $75 in 1799
      Dates of Record:  1799, 1800
      Sources:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.  |  Septennial Census Returns, 1779-1863; Roll No. 1, Adams County, 1800-Cumberland County, 1800. Reel No. 0242. Microfilm in the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg Pennsylvania.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Dobbin, Alexander
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Minister
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Eliza
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three days old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, December 27
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes: Apparent twin sister of Becky, born and registered on same day.
      Date of Record: December 30, 1800
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Becky
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three days old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, December 27
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes: Apparent twin sister of Eliza, born and registered on same day.
      Date of Record: December 30, 1800
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Sall
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three weeks old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, August 20
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: September 10, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    4. Slave Name: Amy
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1805, January 30
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: August 05, 1805
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Dunwiddie, Jane
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for "one slave" in 1802.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1802
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "slave"
      Slave Notes:  
      Date of Record:  1802
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Finley, Margaret
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Widow
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Jem
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, November 30
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: May 12, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: John
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, May 10
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 19, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Moses
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1805, August 09
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: January 07, 1806
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    4. Slave Name: Ann
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1808, April 06
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: September 27, 1808
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Fletcher, John
    City or Township: Franklin Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for one slave in 1799, valued at $80.  Taxed for one female slaves, aged 35, in the Septennial Census of 1800.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Female
      Slave Age:  Aged 35 in 1800
      Slave Date of Birth:  1765 (estimated from Septennial Census of 1800)
      Slave Status:  Slave for life
      Slave Description: "slave,"  "female slave"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $80 in 1799
      Dates of Record:  1799, 1800
      Sources:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.  |  Septennial Census Returns, 1779-1863; Roll No. 1, Adams County, 1800-Cumberland County, 1800. Reel No. 0242. Microfilm in the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg Pennsylvania.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Gorley, Thomas
    City or Township: Liberty Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for "one negro" in 1801, valued at $100.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1801
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:   Valued at $100 in 1801.
      Date of Record:  1801
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name:  Graft, Philip
    City or Township: Straban Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Sam Armstrong
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age:  "45 years of age"
      Slave Date of Birth: 
      Slave Status:
      Slave Description: "Negro Man"
      Slave Notes:  Ran away on October 17, (year not noted).   Text of runaway ad, placed by Graft:
      Twenty Dollars REWARD.  RANAWAY from the Subscriber, living in Straban township, Adams county, on the 18th of September last, a Negro Man, named Sam Armstrong, about 45 years of age, 6 foot 2 or 3 inches high, stout made, has a mark on his right foot about the ankle, occasioned by a cut from an axe -- has remarkably large lips.  He had on when he went away, a light-coloured cloth coat, tow pantaloons, a half-worn wool hat, and coarse shoes.
      The above Reward will be given to any person who will apprehend said Runaway, and confine him in any jail so that I get him again, and all reasonable expences paid if brought home. Philip Graft. Oct. 17.
      Date of Record: October (year not noted--early 1800's)
      Source: "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Hall, Edward
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for one female slave in 1799, valued at $100.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Female
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "female slave"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $100 in 1799
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Herman, John
    City or Township: Berwick Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes: Surname could also be "Harman."

       
    1. Slave Name: Samuel
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1801, May 02
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 29, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Jonas
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, May 22
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 18, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Hersey, Jacob
    City or Township: Huntingdon Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:   "single man"
    Notes:  Assessed for "One slave of no value" in 1799.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:  1799 assessment placed no value on this slave (probably over age 45)
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Hersh, John
    City or Township: Berwick Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Harry
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1811, June 15
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Light black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 04, 1811
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Higas, George
    City or Township: Huntingdon Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:  Assessed for "One slave of no value" in 1799.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:  1799 assessment placed no value on this slave (probably over age 45)
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Hoffman, Henry
    City or Township: Straban Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Matthew
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age:  "near 15 years of age"
      Slave Date of Birth: 1819, estimated from description below
      Slave Status:  Not stated.  Servant or term slave.
      Slave Description: "Colored boy"
      Slave Notes:  Ran away on August 10, 1834.  Text of runaway slave ad:
      SIX CENTS REWARD. RANAWAY from the Subscriber, in Straban township, Adams county, Pa on Sunday the 10th inst., a colored boy, named MATTHEW, near 15 years of age, stout built, healthy, and not very black.  He had on and took with him a variety of good clothing.  The above reward, but no thanks will be given for bringing him home; and all persons are hereby warned not to harbor or trust him on my account.
      HENRY HOFFMAN.  August 21, 1834,
      Date of Record: August 1834
      Source: "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Hoke, Conrad, Jr.
    City or Township: "near Gettysburg"
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:

       
    1. 1806 advertisement from Conrad Hoke offering to sell an enslaved Black male. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Male
      Slave Age: Not specified, but probably about four-years old based upon lenght of enslavement years remaining.
      Slave Date of Birth:  Circa 1802, based upon number of enslavement years remaining in term.
      Slave Status:  Slave for a term of years: 24 years remaining in term
      Slave Description: "Male Negro"
      Slave Notes: Hoke advertised to sell this person in November 1806. Text of advertisement:
      A healthy Male Negro, Who has twenty-four years to serve, will be sold by the subscriber, on reasonable terms for Cash; or on Credit, to a good purchaser.
      Conrad Hoke, jun.
      near Gettysburg.
      November 26, 1806
      Date of Record: 26 November 1806
      Source: The Sprig of Liberty (Gettysburg, PA), 09 January 1807.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Hoke, Henry
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:  Tanner
    Notes:  Assessed for one male slave in 1799, valued at $150.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Male
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "male slave"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $150 in 1799
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Horner, Alexander
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Peter
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1804, October 23
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: February 22, 1805
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Aaron
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1807, April 26
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 13, 1807
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Tom
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: One month old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1808, September 16
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 11, 1808
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Horner, David
    City or Township: Mount Pleasant Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Cyrus
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1802, May 19
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: August 20, 1802
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Horner, Mary
    City or Township: Mount Joy Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Widow
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Ivory
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1805, July 17 or 18
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: January 14, 1806
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Horner, William
    City or Township: Mount Joy Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Abraham
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1808, April 08
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes: See the advertisement, below, placed by Horner in 1810 in which he offers to sell a two-year-old slave child. Possibly this same person.
      Date of Record: August 04, 1808
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. 1810 advertisement by William Horner of Adams County to sell an enslaved Black woman with her two-year-old child. Slave Name: Not stated
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Adult of child-bearing age
      Slave Date of Birth: Circa 1788
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28, presumed
      Slave Description: "Negro Wench"
      Slave Notes: Offered for sale in May 1810 along with her two-year-old child. Text of advertisement placed by Horner:
      FOR SALE,
      The time of a likely NEGRO WENCH, who has six years to serve, and has a child of about two years old. They will be sold together or seperate. Inquire of WILLIAM HORNER.
      May 22, 1810.
      Date of Record: 22 May 1810
      Source: Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, PA), 06 June 1810.
       
    3. Slave Name: Not stated
      Slave Sex: Not stated
      Slave Age: "About two years old"
      Slave Date of Birth: about 1808
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "child"
      Slave Notes: This is possibly the child Abraham, who would be of the same age and was registered in August 1808, above.
      Date of Record: 22 May 1810
      Source: Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, PA), 06 June 1810.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Houlsworth, Samuel
    City or Township: Straban Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Bob
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Fourteen days old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, January 14
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: January 28, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Ickes, Peter
    City or Township: Abbottstown, Berwick Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:  Innkeeper
    Notes:  Assessed for "one negro" in 1790, valued at $25.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1790
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $25 in 1790
      Date of Record:  1790
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Johnson, Lewis; Surname also spelled Johnston in some records
    City or Township: Gettysburg Borough
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Labourer
    Notes: Lewis Johnson is described in the registration document as "man of colour."
    Research by the Adams County Historical Society and published in their journal Adams County History notes the following on Johnson:
    [Recorded as a "man of colour," this is the only known black slaveholder in Adams county. On December 7, 1814, he and Dolly Wilson, both black and both of Gettysburg, were married by justice of the peace Alexander Russell. Johnston, recorded only as a laborer, was taxed as a resident of Gettysburg 1817-1825. On June 2, 1818, he purchased property in Troxell's Addition (now near Middle and West Streets in the borough). Almost exactly a year later he sold that property; the deed of sale records his wife's name as Dorothy, surely the "Dolly" he married. The 1820 federal census shows him as head of house, black, aged 26-44; with him are two black males and one black female, all under 14 years of age and all likely his children. But no wife is shown, suggesting Dolly's death in the preceding twelve months. By the time of the 1830 census, Johnston was no longer in the county, at least as head of house. The information perhaps hints that Lewis Johnston married a slave, then subsequently freed both her and son Stephen.]
    Source: (2003) "The Slave Birth Register of Adams County," Adams County History: Vol. 9 , Article 6. Available at: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/ach/vol9/iss1/6.

       
    1. Slave Name: Stephen
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1816, January 04
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: March 08, 1816
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
  • Slaveholder Name: Kelleberger, John
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Eliza
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1807, June 08
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 16, 1807
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Kitzmiller, George
    City or Township: Conowago Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  In 1801 Kitzmiller was assessed for a "Grist Mill, saw-mill, oil-mill, hominy-mill and slaves valued at $250."

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1801
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:   Included in property assessments for Conowago Township, in 1801.
      Date of Record:  1801
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Lashells, Ralph
    City or Township: Gettysburg Borough
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:  Ralph Lashells served on Gettysburg borough council in 1808, and was also one of the first bank commissioners in the borough (1813). (History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.)
     
    1. Slave Name: Nat Johnston
      Slave Sex:  Male
      Slave Age:  "About 45 years of age"
      Slave Date of Birth:  1759 (estimated)
      Slave Status: Not determined, but possibly a slave for life
      Slave Description: "Mulatto"
      Slave Notes: Ran away 2 June, 1804.  Ad placed by Lashells:
      Ten Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber living in Gettysburg, Adams county, on Saturday the 2d day of June, instant;  A Mulatto Servant Man, Named NAT JOHNSTON, about 45 years of age, and about five feet ten inches high.  He had on when he went away, a light mix'd coloured broad-cloth coat, a crossbarr'd swansdown jacket, a pair of tow trousers almost new, a flax-linen shirt, and an old roram hat.  Whoever takes up said Runaway, and secures him in any gaol, so that I get him again, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges if brought home, paid by RALPH LASHELLS, June 8, 1804.
      N.B.  All persons are forwarned from harbouring said fellow, at their peril.  R.L.
      Date of Record:  June 8, 1804
      Source:  "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.
  • Slaveholder Name: Lilly, Samuel
    City or Township: Mount Pleasant Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Stephen
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, December 26
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: February 24, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Fanny
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, June 28
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 19, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Rachael
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1807, June 01
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 19, 1807
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    4. Slave Name: Henry
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1809, July 21
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 21, 1809
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    5. Slave Name: Benjamin
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: One month old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1811, October 04
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 20, 1811
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    6. Slave Name: Mary Ann
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: One month old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1813, November 03
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1813
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    7. Slave Name: Edward
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1816, March 11
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: June 29, 1816
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    8. Slave Name: Margaret
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three weeks old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1818, August 24
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: September 14, 1818
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Long, Alexander
    City or Township: Straban Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Miller
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Pheb
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1812, May 30
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: August 25, 1812
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Long, Jannet
    City or Township: Straban Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Julian
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1802, March 22
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: July 22, 1802
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Marshall, James
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for one slave, valued at $30, in 1802.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1802
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "slave"
      Slave Notes:   Valued at $30.
      Date of Record:  1802
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.

     
  • 1810 Gettysburg advertisement for a public sale that was to include the sale of a young Black girl. Slaveholder Name: Maxwell, William
    City or Township:Gettysburg
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  One female slave placed for pubic auction in January 1810

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Not specified, described as a "Girl"
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1810
      Slave Status:  Slave for a term of years
      Slave Description: "Negro Girl"
      Slave Notes: Public auction of William Maxwell's house, property and livestock was advertised by Sheriff Roger Wales and set for January 17, 1810. Included in that public auction was the person listed here. Excerpt from ad: "Also -- at the same time and place, A likely smart Negro Girl, who has a term of years to serve."
      Date of Record: 09 January 1810
      Source: Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, PA), 17 January 1810
     
  • Slaveholder Name: McClean, Moses
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes: In 1805, McClean listed his residence as Franklin Township. His 1807 advertisement to sell some slaves says his residence is in "Carroll's Delight," which refers to the 5,000 acres granted to Charles Carroll in 1732 and encompasses these areas in Adams County.

       
    1. Slave Name: Sele
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1802, November 07
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: May 03, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. 1807 Advertisement from Moses McClean to sell two slaves. Slave Name: Amy
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1804, November 27
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: March 01, 1805
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Unnamed woman
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Not stated, but described as a "woman"
      Slave Date of Birth: Possibly born circa 1784, based on amount of time remaining to serve if she was enslaved for the 28-year term most common to enslaved persons born in Pennsylvania after 1780.
      Slave Status: Slave for a term of years
      Slave Description: "Negro woman"
      Slave Notes: Advertised for sale along with a two-year-old female child in February 1807. The description of the child offered for sale is close to that of "Amy," above. It is likely that this woman is the mother of Amy. Text of ad:
      For Sale,
      The time of a stout, healthy NEGRO WOMAN, Who has about four years and nine months to serve; and a female child upwards of two years old -- both registered according to law. For terms apply to MOSES M'CLEAN.
      Carroll's Delight, Adams County.
      Feb. 3, 1807.
      Date of Record: 03 February 1807
      Source: Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, PA), 04 February 1807.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: McGiney, Mary
    City or Township: Liberty Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Venus
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1801, April 10
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulatto"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 05, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: McGinley, Salley
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Letty
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1801, August 21
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: February 08, 1802
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: McKasson, William
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Nany
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, April 12
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: August 18, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: McKesson, Alexander
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes: With the registration of Sidney, McKesson listed his residence as Liberty Township.  In 1801, McKesson was assessed in Liberty Township for three slaves, with a total value of $306.

       
    1. Slave Name: Poll
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1799, December 24
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: June 16, 1800
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Sidney
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, December
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: May 09, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1801
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Slave"
      Slave Notes:   One of three slaves for which McKesson was assessed in 1801.
      Date of Record:  1801
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: McKesson, James Jr.
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Charles
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1810, November 15
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: April 19, 1811
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Margaret
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1812, December 03
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: May 11, 1813
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1802
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "slave"
      Slave Notes:   Valued as $100 in the 1802 township assessment.
      Date of Record:  1802
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: McPherren, Ann
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Widow
    Notes: Surname is also spelled "McFarren" in the slave register.

       
    1. Slave Name: Jake
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, September 18 (a)
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: February 02, 1804
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Nell
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1806, April 07 or 08
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: August 22, 1806
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Juley
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1809, July 20
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 15, 1809
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    4. Slave Name: Matty
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1811, June 01
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 01, 1811
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    5. Slave Name: Mint
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1814, April 13
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: September 27, 1814
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: McPherson, Agnes
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:  Widow
    Notes:  Assessed for one female slave in 1799, valued at $25.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Female
      Slave Age: Not specified, but described as a "woman."
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "female slave"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $25 in 1799
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
       
    2. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Male
      Slave Age: Not specified, but described as a "man."
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "man slave"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $150 in 1799
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: McPherson, Robert
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes: 

       
    1. 1810 advertisement from Robert McPherson in Cumberland Township, Adams County, to sell an enslaved young Black man. Slave Name: Name not known.
      Slave Sex:  Male
      Slave Age: Not specified, but described as a young man
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1810; possibly 1790 if he was held to the typical 28-year-term of enslavement.
      Slave Status: Slave for a term of years; eight years remaining to serve
      Slave Description: "Young Negro Man"
      Slave Notes:  Offered for sale in May 1810. Text of advertiement placed by McPherson:
      FOR SALE,
      The time of an active, healthy YOUNG NEGRO MAN, who has about eight years to serve -- is a good worker, and understands all kinds of farming business -- Enquire of ROBERT M'PHERSON.
      Cumberland township, May 28, 1810.
      Date of Record: 28 May 1810
      Source: Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, PA), 06 June 1810.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: McPherson, William
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for several male slaves in 1799, valued at $800.

       
    1. Slave Names:  Names not known (multiple slaves)
      Slave Sex:  Male
      Slave Age: Not specified, but described as "men."
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "men slaves"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $800 in 1799
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
       
    2. Slave Name:  Jim
      Slave Sex:  Male
      Slave Age: "about 19 years of age"
      Slave Date of Birth:  Circa 1786
      Slave Status:  Slave for a term of years; Escaped in March 1805.
      Slave Description: "Negro servant"
      Slave Notes:  This person may or may not be one of those noted in tax records, above. Jim ran away on Friday, March 29, 1805, taking only his everyday clothes, described below. Text of runaway advertisement placed by McPherson:
      Twenty Dollars REWARD.
      RANAWAY from the subscriber, living in Adams county, Pennsylvania, on the 29th day of March last, a Negro servant for years, named JIM, about 19 years of age, five feet eight inches high, slim made, remarkably knock-kneed, especially the right knee, which stands very much in, and the foot out, has a long wart or mole on one of his ears; took with him only his common wearing apparel, consisting of a short coattee and overalls of home made cloth, winestone coloured, and jacket of the same, only striped in the weaving, and lighter coloured, a half worn wool hat, gray yarn stockings, and shoes lately soled and patched. Whoever takes up said servant, and secures him in any jail, so that his master may get him again, shall receive the above reward', and reasonable charges, if brought home, from
      WILLIAM M'PHERSON.
      May 1, 1805.
      Date of Record:  01 May 1805
      Source: Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, PA), 26 June 1805.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: McSherry, James
    City or Township: Germany Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:  Merchant
    Notes:   In 1799, James McSherry was assessed by the county for "two negro slaves for life, $266, and two small negro children, $20."  In 1800 he was taxed for one male slave, aged 23, one female slave aged 20 and one female slave aged 48.  The "two small negro children" valued at $20 in 1799 would not have been listed because they were too young to be taxable under the state Septennial Census.  The two slaves who were in their twenties in 1800 may be the two slaves manumitted in 1817, as noted below.

     

    1. Slave Name: Not reported
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: about 38 years old
      Slave Date of Birth:  c1779 (calculated)
      Slave Status:  Manumitted in 1817
      Slave Description:
      Slave Notes: Manumitted by McSherry in 1817.
      Date of Record: 1817
      Source: "Slavery in ‘upper end’ dying out by 1800," Adams County Bicentennial Committee, April 16, 2000, published on the internet at http://www.gettysburg.com/adams200/tidbits/april.htm, accessed September 29, 2004.
       

    2. Slave Name: Not reported
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: about 38 years old
      Slave Date of Birth:  c1779 (calculated)
      Slave Status:  Manumitted in 1817
      Slave Description:
      Slave Notes: Manumitted by McSherry in 1817.
      Date of Record: 1817
      Source: "Slavery in ‘upper end’ dying out by 1800," Adams County Bicentennial Committee, April 16, 2000, published on the internet at http://www.gettysburg.com/adams200/tidbits/april.htm, accessed September 29, 2004.

     

  • Slaveholder Name: Moore, James, Sr.
    City or Township: Huntingdon Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:  Assessed for "Young slaves" in 1799. 

       
    1. Slave Name:  Names not known (multiple slaves)
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "young slaves"
      Slave Notes:  1799 assessment placed no value on these slaves (probably under age 12)
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Moore, James, Jr.
    City or Township: Huntingdon Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:  Assessed for "Young slaves" in 1799. 

       
    1. Slave Name:  Names not known (multiple slaves)
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "young slaves"
      Slave Notes:  1799 assessment placed no value on these slaves (probably under age 12)
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Mundorf, Jacob
    City or Township: Liberty Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: William
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1801, December 12
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: May 08, 1802
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Cesar
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1805, July 10
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: December 02, 1805
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Sally
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1807, March 06
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: May 28, 1807
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Murphy, John
    City or Township: Borough of Gettysburg
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: County Jailor
    Notes:  As jailor, Murphy had control of those persons suspected of being runaway slaves who were brought to his jail until their owner, if any, could be found.  He also had the responsibility of placing runaway ads.

       
    1. Slave Name: Harry Jackson
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age:  "About 24 years of age"
      Slave Date of Birth:  1778, estimated from description below.
      Slave Status:  Suspected runaway slave
      Slave Description: "Negro Man"
      Slave Notes:  Runaway ad placed by jailor Murphy:
      A RUNAWAY. WAS committed to the jail of Adams county, on the 12th of January last, on suspicion of being a Runaway, a Negro Man who calls himself Harry Jackson, About 24 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high; he wants one for tooth, and has a remarkable scar on his left eye brow--says he is a freeman, and came from Annapolis.  His master may have him again by applying and paying charges.
      JOHN MURPHY, jailor.
      Gettysburg, March 9, 1802.
      Date of Record: March, 1802
      Source:  "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.
       
    2. Slave Name: Will
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age:  Age not specified, but described as a "man."
      Slave Date of Birth:  Not known, but prior to 1803.
      Slave Status:  Suspected runaway slave
      Slave Description: "Negro Man"
      Slave Notes:  Runaway ad placed by jailor Murphy:
      A Runaway. WAS committed to the jail, in Gettysburg, Adams county, on the 14th inst.--A NEGRO MAN, who calls himself WILL, says he belongs to WILLIAM MARLIN of Fairfax county (Virginia)--His master is desired to come and take him away, otherwise he will be discharged.
      JOHN MURPHY.
      October 25th, 1803.
      Date of Record: October, 1803
      Source:  "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.

    3.  
    4. Slave Name: Bob
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age:  Age not specified, but described as a "man."
      Slave Date of Birth:  Not known, but prior to 1803.
      Slave Status:  Suspected runaway slave
      Slave Description: "Negro Man"
      Slave Notes:  Runaway ad placed by jailor Murphy:
      A Runaway. WAS committed to the jail, in Gettysburg, Adams county, on the 17th December last.--A negro man who calls himself BOB, says he came from near Fredericksburg (Virginia)--His master is desired to come and take him away, otherwise he will be discharged.
      JOHN MURPHY.
      January 9th, 1804.
      Date of Record: January, 1804
      Source:  "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.

    5.  
    6. Slave Name: Jack
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age:  "about 30 years of age"
      Slave Date of Birth:  1771 (estimated)
      Slave Status:  Suspected runaway slave--escaped from jail
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:  Escaped from the Adams County jail, where he had been imprisoned on suspicion of being a runaway slave.  Ran away with fellow escapee William Hershberger, who was jailed for stealing.  Escape ad placed by jailor Murphy (excerpt):
      12 Dollars Reward.  BROKE out of the Jail of Adams county, Pennsylvania, on Thursday night last, William Hershberger, a Mulatto man, about 40 years of age, stout made--he was committed for stealing--Likewise--Negro JACK, a low, stout set fellow, about 30 years of age, had on a blue broad cloth coat, and an old blue great coat00he was committed on suspicion of being a runaway.  Whoever takes up said runaways, and brings them to the jail in Gettysburg, shall have the above reward, or Six Dollars for either of them.
      JOHN MURPHY, Jailor.
      Nov. 3, 1801.
      Date of Record: November, 1801
      Source:  "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.
       
    7. Slave Name:  Ned Butler
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age:  "22 years of age"
      Slave Date of Birth:  1783 (estimated)
      Slave Status:  Suspected runaway slave
      Slave Description: "Negro man"
      Slave Notes:  Imprisoned in the Adams County jail on suspicion of being a runaway slave.  Ad placed by jailor Murphy:
      WAS committed to the jail in Gettysburg, Adams county, on the 25th of May last, a Negro man, by the name of NED BUTLER, on suspicion of being a runaway; he says that he is free, and lived in and about Greensburg.  He is a stout fellow, five feet nine or ten inches high, says he is 22 years of age, a good countenance, stammers in his speech; he had with him a mixd broad cloth coat, with gilt yellow buttons, the name and likeness of Thomas Jefferson on each button.  The owner is desired to come, and take him away before the 2d of July next, otherwise he will be discharged.
      JOHN MURPHY, Jailor.
      June 11th, 1805.
      Date of Record: June, 1805
      Source:  "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.
       
    8. Slave Name: Charles
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age:  Not specified, but described as a "man."
      Slave Date of Birth:   Not known--late 1700's
      Slave Status:  Suspected runaway slave
      Slave Description: "Negro Man"
      Slave Notes:  Imprisoned in the Adams County jail on suspicion of being a runaway slave.  Ad placed by jailor Murphy:
      A RUNAWAY NEGRO.  WAS committed to the Jail in Gettysburg, Adams county, Pennsylvania, on the 10th day of September last, a Negro Man, by the name of CHARLES, with an iron collar about his neck, says he is a slave the property of MR. William Campbell, near Lexington, Kentucky, and that he ran away about the 1st of August last.  His Master is desired to come and take him away, otherwise, he will be discharged.
      JOHN MURPHY.
      Nov. 19, 1803.
      Date of Record: November, 1803
      Source:  "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection.  Used by permission.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Neely, James
    City or Township: Tyrone Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer, Innkeeper (1811)
    Notes: Neely listed his residence as Reading Township with the registration of the child Lene in October 1800, but used Tyrone Township for all other registrations.
    With the registration of the child Hannah in 1811, Neely listed his occupation as innkeeper.

       
    1. Slave Name: Venus
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, January 01
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: June 10, 1800
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Lene
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, May 11
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 30, 1800
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: George
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1802, October 10
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: March 02, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    4. Slave Name: Phillis
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1809, July (middle)
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes: The County Clerk recorded Phillis' date of birth as "in the month of July 1809 about the middle of sd. month."
      Date of Record: November 23, 1809
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    5. Slave Name: Hannah
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1811, September 01
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 20, 1811
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Neely, Jonathan
    City or Township: Tyrone Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Ivory, Gustavus V.
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, September 06
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: February 06, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Patton, John
    City or Township: Huntington Township
    County: Huntington County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes: No explanation is given as to why Patton registered his slave Abner in Adams County.

       
    1. Slave Name: Abner
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1811, March 12
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: August 27, 1811
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Porter, Jeremiah
    City or Township: Liberty Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:   Assessed for two slaves, with a total value of $165, in 1801. Those slaves are not listed below.

       
    1. Slave Name: Sade
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1804, March 02
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: August 04, 1804
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: George
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Two months old at
      Slave Date of Birth: 1805, September 28
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 28, 1805
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Porter, William
    City or Township: Liberty Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer, Saw mill owner
    Notes:  Assessed for two slaves, with a total value of $165, in 1801.

       
    1. Slave Name: Haney
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, August 03
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 25, 1800
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1801
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:   One of two slaves for which Porter was assessed $165 in 1801.
      Date of Record:  1801
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Ramsey, Reynolds
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:  Merchant
    Notes:  Assessed for one female slave in 1799, valued at $100.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Female
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "female slave"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $100 in 1799
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Reid, William
    City or Township: Liberty Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:  Miller
    Notes:  Assessed for "one slave" in 1801, with no value.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1801
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Slave"
      Slave Notes:   No value for the 1801 assessment (too young or too old).
      Date of Record:  1801
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Rhea, Robert
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:   Robert Rhea was assessed for a slave valued at $110 in 1802. (History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.)

       
    1. Slave Name: Elce
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1799, December 13
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: April 14, 1800
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Dinah
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1804, March
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes: The County Clerk recorded Dinah's birthdate as "between the 1st & 20th days of March 1804."
      Date of Record: July 30, 1804
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name: Ruth
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1808, July 05
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: September 17, 1808
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Ross, John
    City or Township: Franklin Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Bob
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1801, August 13
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: November 19, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Jem
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, July 24
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: January 21, 1804
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Russell, Alexander
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:  "Squire"
    Notes:  Assessed for one female slave in 1799, valued at $100.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Female
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "female slave"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $100 in 1799
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Scott, James
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Innkeeper
    Notes:  Assessed for one female slave in 1799, valued at $100, most likely the mother of the children registered in 1802 and 1805, below. Scott died in 1806 and all of his property was sold to settle his estate. His executors advertised his enslaved persons in October 1806: "At Private Sale, will be offered a Negro MAN and a Negro WOMAN, both slaves -- Also -- a number of Negro Boys and Girls, servants till the age of 28 years."
     
      1806 Advertisement to settle the estate of James Scott, deceased, including the private sale of all of his slaves.
    1. Slave Name: Joe
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1802, January 26
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: April 23, 1802
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Sophia
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Twelve days old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1805, February 03 (a)
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes: The Adams County Clerk recorded Sophia's date of birth as "on or abt. Feby 3rd 1805."
      Date of Record: February 15, 1805
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Female
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1799
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "female slave"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $100 in 1799.  Possibly the mother of  Joe, born in 1802, and Sophia, born in 1805.
      Date of Record:  1799
      Source: History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
       
    4. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Male
      Slave Age: Not specified. Described as a "man."
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1780
      Slave Status:  Slave for life
      Slave Description: "Negro Man"
      Slave Notes:  Advertised to be sold at a private sale in 1806 in order to settle estate.
      Date of Record: October 7, 1806
      Source: Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, PA), 15 October 1806.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Sherman, George
    City or Township: Germany Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Jem
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1806, November 29
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: January 21, 1807
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Sam
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1810, February 23
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: June 18, 1810
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Slagle, David
    City or Township: Berwick Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:  Assessed for "one negro" in 1799, valued at $30.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Male
      Slave Age:  23 years (1800)
      Slave Date of Birth:  1777 (estimated)
      Slave Status:   Slave for life
      Slave Description: "Negro"
      Slave Notes:  Valued at $30 in 1799
      Dates of Record:  1799, 1800
      Sources:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. |  Septennial Census Returns, 1779-1863; Roll No. 1, Adams County, 1800-Cumberland County, 1800. Reel No. 0242. Microfilm in the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg Pennsylvania.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Stewart, John
    City or Township: Liberty Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:   Assessed for one slave in 1801, valued at $80. (History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.)

       
    1. Slave Name: Isaac
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Nine days old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, December 27
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: January 05, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Sweney, Isaac
    City or Township: "near Gettysburg"
    County: Adams County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Henry Hall
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: 22
      Slave Date of Birth: C1800
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Negro man"
      Slave Notes: Escaped from Sweney on May 5, 1822. Text of Sweney's advertisement to recover him:
      10 Dollars Reward.
      RAN away from the subscriber living in Adams county, near Gettysburg, on the 5th inst. a Negro man named HENRY HALL, about 5 feet seven inches high, aged 22 years; he is stiff in the loins, occasioned by the kick of a horse -- diffident when spoken to, and is given to lying. He had on and took with him, a brown surtout coat, one pair of dark linsey overalls, and one of striped tow, a fur hat, a pair of coarse shoes and a pair of fine do. with other articles of clothing not recollected. Whoever takes up said runaway and lodges him in any jail, on giving information thereof to the subscriber, so that he can get him again, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges.
      ISAAC SWENEY.
      May 21, 1822.
      N.B. He has friends near Mercersburg and has been seen in that neighborhood.
      Date of Record: 21 May 1822
      Source: Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, PA), 21 May 1822.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Sweney, Thomas
    City or Township: Cumberland Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Sylvina
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1800, November 15
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: March 07, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Waugh, David
    City or Township: Liberty Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:   In 1802, as a resident of Hamilton Bann Township, David Waugh was assessed for one slave, value $100.

       
    1. Slave Name: Phebe
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Three months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1803, July 12
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Mulattoe"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 26, 1803
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Jack
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Two months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1809, April 20
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: July 12, 1809
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1802
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "slave"
      Slave Notes:   Valued at $100 in 1802.
      Date of Record:  1802
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Weakly, William
    City or Township: Reading Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Betty
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: One month old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1801, September 26
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: October 26, 1801
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Weems, Thomas
    City or Township: Mount Joy Township
    County: Adams County (former York County)
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Will
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age:  Not known, but described as a "boy."
      Slave Date of Birth: before 1796
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "Mulata Boy"
      Slave Notes:  Bequeathed by Thomas Weems to his son John Weems in 1796
      Date of Record: 11 May 1796
      Source: Will of Thomas Weems, 11 May 1796; probated 19 December 1796.  Transcript provided to the Afrolumens Project by Suella Postles, January 25, 2006.
       
    2. Slave Name: Catty
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: "about nine years old"
      Slave Date of Birth:  circa 1787
      Slave Status:  Slave to age 28 (see slave notes, below)
      Slave Description: "Negro girl"
      Slave Notes: Bequeathed by Thomas Weems to Elizabeth McAllister in 1796 as follows: "a Negro girl about nine years old named Catty to be holden of her for ever."  If Catty was nine years old in 1796, making her year of birth about 1787, she could not legally be held as a slave for life, as suggested in the phrase "holden of her for ever," in the state of Pennsylvania.
      Date of Record: 11 May 1796
      Source: Will of Thomas Weems, 11 May 1796; probated 19 December 1796.  Transcript provided to the Afrolumens Project by Suella Postles, January 25, 2006.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Wilson, David
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes: 

       
    1. Slave Name: Eli
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1808, July 23
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: January 11, 1809
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    2. Slave Name: Jude
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Five months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1814, January 21
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: June 16, 1814
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
       
    3. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1802
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "slave"
      Slave Notes:   Valued at $120 in 1802.
      Date of Record:  1802
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Wilson, Hugh
    City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: 
    Notes:  Assessed for one slave, valued at $100, in 1802.

       
    1. Slave Name:  Name not known
      Slave Sex:  Not specified
      Slave Age: Not specified
      Slave Date of Birth:  Prior to 1802
      Slave Status:  Not known
      Slave Description: "slave"
      Slave Notes:   Valued at $100 in 1802.
      Date of Record:  1802
      Source:   History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
     
  • Slaveholder Name: Wilson, Thomas
    City or Township: Straban Township
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Peggy
      Slave Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Six months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1813, June 11
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: December 04, 1813
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

     
  • Slaveholder Name: Worley, Joseph
    City or Township: Gettysburg Borough
    County: Adams County
    Occupation: Innkeeper
    Notes:

       
    1. Slave Name: Harry
      Slave Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Four months old at Registration.
      Slave Date of Birth: 1807, August 29
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Slave Description: "Black"
      Slave Notes:
      Date of Record: January 11, 1808
      Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves

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