Bucks County, Pennsylvania Slaveholders, Surnames C - D
Slaveholders Listed On This Page
- Calley, John (Slaves listed: Ming)
- Carr, ? (Slaves listed: Bob, George, Bek)
- Carr, John (Slaves listed: Stephen)
- Clark, John (Slaves listed: Sheffield, James St. Clair, Sampson, James, Peter, Caesar, Charles, Martia, Flora)
- Clark, Wheeler (Slaves listed: Aube)
- Colvin, Patrick (Slaves listed: James, Stanhope)
- Cornell, Gilliam --Northampton Twp.-- (Slaves listed: Fleet, Sook, Richard, Nance, Putt, Caesar, Jack, Bett, Lill, Will, Sarah, Garret Beard, Hannah, Tomb, Joseph)
- Cornell, Gilliam --Southampton Twp.-- (Slaves listed: Charles, John, Nance)
- Cornell, Rem (Slaves listed: Will, Mary, Jacob, unknown male, Dinah (b. 1773), Dinah (b. 1792), Dick, Yast, Isabel, Caesar, Thomas)
- Cornell, Willelmus (Slaves listed: Cuff, Jane, Tone, Sam)
- Cornell, William (Slaves listed: William)
- Cornick, David (Slaves listed: Ben a.k.a. "Tim")
- Corson, Mary (Slaves listed: Sarah, Dinah)
- Coryell, John (Slaves listed: Bront)
- Coxe, William (Slaves listed: Passika, Jude, Caesar, Harry)
- Craven, Giles (Slaves listed: Jacob)
- Craven, Isaac (Slaves listed: Dinah)
- Craven, Thomas (Slaves listed: Jeffery, Bet, Dick, Jo, Harry, Tony, Dine, Pol, Ezabel)
- Davis, William (Slaves listed: Vine)
- Denormandie, John Abraham (Slaves listed: Two un-named men)
- Dougherty, Jennet (Slaves listed: James)
- Dowdney, John (Slaves listed: Strephon, Mary, Jude)
- Dubois, Abraham (Slaves listed: Will)
- Dubois, Helina (Slaves listed: Harry)
- Duer, John (Slaves listed: Peg, Fan, Sal, Harry)
- Dungan, Clement (Slaves listed: Damphin, Joseph)
- Dungan, David (Slaves listed: Mahlon, Richard)
- Dungan, David Jr. (Slaves listed: Elizabeth, Aaron)
- Dungan, Elias (Slaves listed: Bets, David, Patt, Hannah, Jake, Joe, Abe, Isaac)
- Dungan, Jeremiah Sr. (Slaves listed: Cuff, Mary)
- Dungan, John (Slaves listed: Unnamed mother and child)
- Dungan, Jonathan (Slaves listed: Glasgow, Dolly, Sam)
- Dungan, Joshua (Slaves listed: Hannah, Enoch, Jesse)
About The Data
Each listing represents a record of one
Black enslaved person or indentured servant (more on terminology below). The
list is sorted alphabetically according to the owner's surname. I felt
that this order would be the most useful for several reasons. It groups
slaves together who would have lived with the same owner, and increases
the likelihood of finding persons related to each other. Records of
slave surnames are rare, many being identified only through their given
name. You can search this listing for a specific slave given name by
using your browser's Find feature.
Dates of birth for the slaves, unless
specified in the original documents, have been calculated by
subtracting their given age from the date of the record. Very often,
their ages as reported in the original records are given as approximations
(such as "about 25 years of age"), indicated by a lower
case a following their age. The term Status refers to
the slave's relative freedom. Unless specified otherwise, slaves served "for
life" prior to Pennsylvania's Gradual Emancipation
Act of 1780. Children born to slave mothers after the passage of
that legislation were to serve until age 28, which was much of their
productive lives.
The term Description refers to the
main description of the slave as given in the original source (including
misspellings). This is often a means by which enslaved persons were categorized according to race and relative age. Source numbers
correspond to the accompanying list of sources used
in compiling these records.
Terminology, and Other Notes
The terms "slave" and "servant" were often
used interchangeably, especially in the earliest years of the time
period covered in this study. After the Gradual
Emancipation Act of 1780 was passed in Pennsylvania, the term "servant" frequently
came to mean either someone in indentured servitude or someone employed
by the head of the household. The passage from slave to servant was
often indistinct for many Blacks, many of whom remained with their
former owners after being legally emancipated. For simplicity, the term "slave" is used to represent all people who were
in bondage, even though some records list them as "servants."
The locations listed for the slaveholders, especially City
or Township are greatly mixed, and represent the location listed
in the original record. As township boundaries shifted and new townships
and counties were created, the original listing may be misleading.
Enslavement Data
- Slaveholder Name: Calley, John
City or Township: Middletown Township
Occupation: Tanner
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Ming
Sex: Male
Age: ?
Date of Birth: ?
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negro"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette
Date of Record: August 05, 1756
Notes: Ming ran away in 1756 and was captured and jailed in New Castle.
- Slaveholder Name: Carr, ?
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Bob
Sex: Male
Age: 13
Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: George
Sex: Male
Age: 35
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Bek
Sex: Female
Age: 12
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Carr, John
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation: Schoolmaster
Slaveholder Notes: In the signature, the surname is spelled "Kerr."
- Slave Name: Stephen
Sex: Male
Age: 04
Date of Birth: 1784-July 29
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: March 12, 1789
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Clark, John
City or Township: Bristol
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Sheffield
Sex: Male
Age: 28
Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: St. Clair, James
Sex: Male
Age: 18
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 31
Description: Mulatto
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "Mollattoe to be free at 31 Years of Age."
- Slave Name: Sampson
Sex: Male
Age: 40
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: James
Sex: Male
Age: Infant, two months old at registration
Date of Birth: 1791-September 05
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: November 12, 1791
Notes:
- Slave Name: Peter
Sex: Male
Age: 11
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Caesar
Sex: Male
Age: 08
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Charles
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Martia
Sex: Female
Age: 38
Date of Birth: 1742 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Flora
Sex: Female
Age: 11
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Clark, Wheeler
City or Township: Lower Makefield
Occupation: Carpenter
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Aube
Sex: Male
Age: 21
Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Colvin, Patrick
City or Township: Trenton Ferry, Falls Township, later Colvin's Ferry
Occupation: Innkeeper, ferry operator
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: James
Sex: Male
Age: 27a
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Manumitted
Description: Negro
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: August 29, 1787
Notes: Manumission papers read, in part: "manumit and set free my Nigro Slave Named James" who is about 27 years of age.
- Slave Name: Stanhope
Sex: Male
Age: 24
Date of Birth: circa 1749
Status: Slave for life, runaway
Description: "Negro man"
Source: Pennsylvania Packet, 7 June 1773; Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet & General Advertiser, 28 November 1774.
Date of Records: 01 June 1773; 28 November 1774
Notes: Purchased from Robert Irwin in Philadelphia. Ran away from Colvin in June 1773:
Philadelphia, June 1, 1773.
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, living at Trenton Ferry, Bucks County, a negro man named STANHOPE, (formerly belonging to Robert Irwin, of Philadelphia) about six feet high, twenty four years of age, a stout well built fellow, had on when he went away, a good pair of buckskin breeches, spotted flannel jacket with black spots and without sleeves, and an old felt hat. Whoever takes up said negro, and secures him in any of his Majesty's gaols, or in the workhouse in Philadelphia, so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges paid by PATRICK COLVIN, at Trenton Ferry, or ROBERT IRWIN, in Philadelphia.
Stanhope was apparently returned to Colvin, as he escaped one more time, in October 1774. The following ad is from November 1774:
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on the 12th of this instant, (October) a negro man named STANHOPE; he was seen passing through Frankford, and is thought to be in Philadelphia; had on and with him when he went away, an old blue surtout coat, a new red duffil double-breasted jacket pinned, without buttons or strings, tow shirt and trowsers, one felt and one half worn castor hat, and a pair of good shoes with metal buckles. Whoever takes up said negro and secures him, so that his master may have him again, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by ROBERT IRWIN in Philadelphia, or the subscriber at Trenton, New Jersey.
PATRICK COLVIN.
- Slaveholder Name: Cornell, Gilliam
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Fleet
Sex: Male
Age: 14
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sook
Sex: Female
Age: 2 Years and 6 Months
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Richard
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1789-September 26
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: January 22, 1790
Notes:
- Slave Name: Nance
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Putt
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Caesar
Sex: Male
Age: 31
Date of Birth: 1749 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: 55
Date of Birth: 1725 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Bett
Sex: Female
Age: 6 Months old
Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Lill
Sex: Female
Age: 39
Date of Birth: 1741 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Will
Sex: Male
Age: 19
Date of Birth: 1761 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sarah
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Beard, Garret
Sex: Male
Age: 50a
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Manumitted
Description: Negro
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: August 20, 1810
Notes: Text of manumission papers:
Know all Men by these presents that we James Cornell John Cornell and Gilliam Cornell executors of the estate of Gilliam Cornell, late of Northampton township deceased (by and with the consent of all the heirs of the said deceased) from motives of benevolence and humanity have manumitted and do hereby manumit and set free from slavery our negro man named Garret Beard aged about fifty years and we do hereby give grant and release unto the said Garret Beard all our right title and claim of in and to his person labour and service and of in and to the estate and property which he may hereafter acquire or obtain. In Witness whereof We have hereunto set our hand and seals this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten.
--James Cornell (seal)
--John S. Cornell (seal)
--Gilliam Cornell (seal)
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Adrian Cornell, Christopher Vanailsdalen"
This person was registered in 1780 as "Garrett, male, 18 years old." If we may assume that the earlier record is more accurate as to his correct age, then his year of birth would be 1762, not 1760 as noted above, and his age upon manumission would be 48. (Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves)
- Slave Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: 32
Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Tomb
Sex: Male
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Joseph
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1792-February 20
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: May 08, 1792
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Cornell, Gilliam (2)
City or Township: Southampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Charles
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-December 07
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: May 06, 1795
Notes:
- Slave Name: John
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1790-September 22
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: March 15, 1791
Notes:
- Slave Name: Nance
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1792-September 05
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: October 09, 1792
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Cornell, Rem
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Will
Sex: Male
Age: 17
Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Mary
Sex: Female
Age: 05
Date of Birth: 1783-February 17
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: December 09, 1788
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jacob
Sex: Male
Age: 03
Date of Birth: 1785-March 19
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: December 09, 1788
Notes:
- Slave Name: ?
Sex: Male
Age: 01
Date of Birth: 1787-August 12
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: December 09, 1788
Notes: Name unreadable
- Slave Name: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1792-December 24
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: February 04, 1793
Notes:
- Slave Name: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Dick
Sex: Male
Age: 35
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Yast
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-December 20
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: May 19, 1795
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isabel
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1790-November 20
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: February 02, 1791
Notes:
- Slave Name: Caesar
Sex: Male
Age: 05
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Thomas
Sex: Male (see Notes)
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1789-February 12
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: March 11, 1789
Notes: This slave was entered into the slavery register as a female. Probably a mistake by an inattentive clerk.
- Slaveholder Name: Cornell, Willelmus
City or Township: Southampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Cuff
Sex: Male
Age: 34
Date of Birth: 1746 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jane
Sex: Female
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Tone
Sex: Male
Age: 03
Date of Birth: 1777 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sam
Sex: Male
Age: 00 Years and 08 Months
Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Cornell, William
City or Township: Southampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: William
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1788-October 22
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: January 10, 1789
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Cornick, David
City or Township: Radnor Township
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Ben (a.k.a. Tim)
Sex: Male
Age: 36
Date of Birth: 1742 (calculated)
Status: Manumitted
Description: Negro Man
Source: The Pennsylvania Packet
Date of Record: August 15, 1778
Notes: Jailed in Newcastle County on suspicion of being a runaway. Described in the jailor's ad as: "a stout, chunky, well made negro, about five feet eight inches high, thirty six years of age."
Ben contends that he was freed by the will of David Cornick.
- Slaveholder Name: Corson, Mary
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Sarah
Sex: Female
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: 13
Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Coryell, John, Captain
City or Township: Coryell's Ferry (present day location New Hope)
Occupation: Ferry Owner, innkeeper
Slaveholder Notes: John Coryell owned a ferry across the Delaware River that was used by American troops during the Revolutionary War. He was a supporter of the revolution, and by removing boats from the New Jersey side in 1776, was able to help protect the forces of George Washington that had retreated into Pennsylvania. Coryell advertised in 1775 to find the possible owner of an African American man from Virginia who was claiming that he was free.
It is possible that Coryell employed, or was planning to employ this man.
- Slave Name: Bront
Sex: Male
Age: "about 50 years of age"
Date of Birth: 1725 (calculated)
Status: Possibly manumitted in Virginia
Description: "Negroe man...of a small size"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 15 November 1775.
Date of Record: 1775
Notes: Text of advertisement: "CAME to Bucks county, last August, a NEGROE man, named Bront, of a small size, about 50 years of age, with a slit in one of his ears, says he was a slave to Mr. John McGobien, of Virginia, deceased, and at his death was freed, and was since employed to work for Captain Thomas Nolans; if said Negroe has a master, for information, he may apply to Captain JOHN CORYEL, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania."
- Slaveholder Name: Coxe, William
City or Township: Bristol
Occupation: Merchant
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Passika
Sex: Female
Age: 58
Date of Birth: 1722 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jude
Sex: Female
Age: 33
Date of Birth: 1747 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Caesar
Sex: Male
Age: 32
Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Harry
Sex: Male
Age: 30
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Craven, Giles
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation: "Taylor" (Tailor)
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jacob
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-January 03
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: May 27, 1794
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Craven, Isaac
City or Township: Warminster
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1791-September 05
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: March 05, 1792
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Craven, Thomas
City or Township: Warminster
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jeffery
Sex: Male
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Bet
Sex: Female
Age: 41
Date of Birth: 1739 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Dick
Sex: Male
Age: 08
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jo
Sex: Male
Age: 01
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Harry
Sex: Male
Age: 12
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Tony
Sex: Male
Age: 03
Date of Birth: 1777 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Dine
Sex: Female
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Pol
Sex: Female
Age: 15
Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Ezabel
Sex: Female
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Davis, William
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Vine
Sex: Female
Age: 14
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Denormandie, John Abraham
City or Township: Bristol
Occupation: Baker
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Names: Names not provided
Sex: Male
Age: Age not provided, but described as young men.
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Slaves for life
Description: "two young Negroe men"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 30 November 1749
Date of Record: 30 November 1749
Notes: Two men advertised for sale by Denormandie as part of his Bristol home and bakery.
To be sold or lett, by
John Abraham Denormandie,
Of the borough of Bristol,
A large, commodious house, opposite to where the widow Jackson keeps tavern, a small house adjoining to it, two kitchens, two large stables, one of brick; the situation very convenient for shopkeeping, or tavern. Also a large brick bake-house, in right good order to go to work at, and a boulting-house adjoining it; all convenient to the water, and close to Bristol mills. Likewise two young Negroe men, that has been brought up to the baking business. Any person inclining to purchase or hire, may apply to the subscriber in Bristol.
John Abraham Denormandie.
- Slaveholder Name: Dougherty, Jennet
City or Township: Buckingham
Occupation: Widow
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: James
Sex: Male
Age: 5 years old
Date of Birth: May 6, 1783
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: March 10, 1789
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Dowdney, John
City or Township: Bristol Borough
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes: 1780 Registrations include note: "Admr. To the Estate of Jno Priestley."
- Slave Name: Strephon
Sex: Male
Age: 6 years old
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Mary
Sex: Female
Age: 26
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jude
Sex: Female
Age: 8 years old
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Dubois, Abraham
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Will
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1791-October 29
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: April 06, 1792
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Dubois, Helina
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes: As administrator of the estate of
Rev. Jonathan DuBois, Hellena advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette to sell
several slaves: "TO BE SOLD, By the Subscriber, in Northampton, Bucks
County, SUNDRY NEGROES, late the Property of the Reverend Jonathan Du Bois,
deceased, viz. One Negroe Man, 31 Years old, acquainted with Farming, and
hath some Knowledge of the Smith Trade, is healthy, active and industrious;
a Negroe Woman about 35, with one Child about a Year, and another about 3
Years old; also a Lad, between 6 and 7 Years old. For further Particulars,
enquire of HELLENA DU BOIS, Administratrix." (ad dated 24 March 1773)
- Slave Name: Harry
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Duer, John
City or Township: Lower Makefield
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Peg
Sex: Female
Age: 29
Date of Birth: 1751 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Fan
Sex: Female
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sal
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1780-March 31
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "born the Last day of March
1780."
- Slave Name: Harry
Sex: Male
Age: 50
Date of Birth: 1730 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Dungan, Clement
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Damphin
Sex: Female
Age: 62
Date of Birth: 1718 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Joseph
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Dungan, David
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Mahlon
Sex: Male
Age: 14
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Richard
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Dungan, David Jr.
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Age: 35
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Aaron
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Dungan, Elias
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Bets
Sex: Female
Age: 37
Date of Birth: 1743 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: David
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1796-September 10
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: February 07, 1797
Notes:
- Slave Name: Patt
Sex: Female
Age: 07 Years and 10 Days
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: 04 Years and 08 Months
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jake
Sex: Male
Age: 01 Year and 09 Months
Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Joe
Sex: Male
Age: 38
Date of Birth: 1742 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Abe
Sex: Male
Age: 08 Years and 08 Months
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-February 25
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: May 27, 1794
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Dungan, Jeremiah Sr.
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Cuff
Sex: Male
Age: 59
Date of Birth: 1721 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Mary
Sex: Female
Age: 33
Date of Birth: 1747 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Dungan, John
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes: Offered a slave woman and her child for sale: "TO BE SOLD, A LIKELY young Negroe wench, and a child of two years old, fit for town or country business. She can knit, spin and sew well, wash and iron as well as most. She will not steal, nor get drunk, is good natured in a family; her age 23 years; they have both had the smallpox. Enquire of John Dungan, in Bucks county, Northampton township."
- Slave Name: Not named
Sex: Female
Age: "her age 23 years"
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Young Negroe wench"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 31 March, 7 April 1768
Date of Record: 31 March 1768
Notes: Mother of a two year-old child, also offered for sale.
- Slaveholder Name: Dungan, Jonathan
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Glasgow
Sex: Male
Age: 13
Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Dolly
Sex: Female
Age: 4 Years and 5 Months
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 31
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to be free at 31 Years of Age."
- Slave Name: Sam
Sex: Male
Age: 26
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Dungan, Joshua
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Enoch
Sex: Male
Age: 2 years old at registration
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jesse
Sex: Male
Age: 9 years old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: Jesse ran away on July 24, 1791. He was described in the runaway ad as: "five feet six inches high, took with him a nankeen jacket and pair of breeches, a pair of blue and white woollen stockings, a long green coat, and a new hat, broad in the brim; he has a black speck in the white of his eye." (The Pennsylvania Gazette)
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