Bucks County, PA Slaveholders with Surnames E-J
Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Edams, Hugh (Slaves listed: Hannah, Will Scott, Peter, Bram, Tone)
- Edams, James (Slaves listed: Abraham)
- Ellicott, Nathaniel (Slaves listed: Rachel McDaniel)
- Feaster, David (Slaves listed: Sal)
- Fenton, John (Slaves listed: Jude, Rachel)
- Fenton, Joseph (Slaves listed: Jim, Peter)
- Fenton, Mathias (Slaves listed: Harry, Tom)
- Follwell, Thomas (Slaves listed: Harry)
- Garrison, Charles (Slaves listed: Tom, Stace, Arem)
- Gillespie, George (Slaves listed: Rosetta, Till, Sam)
- Gilleylan, John (Slaves listed: Lilly, un-named boy and un-named girl)
- Green, Alice (Slaves listed: John)
- Green, John (Slaves listed: Isaac)
- Grier, Agnes (Slaves listed: Hector, Herod)
- Grier, James (Slaves listed: Eve)
- Grier, John (Slaves listed: Bess, Caesar)
- Grier, John (2) (Slaves listed: Alexander)
- Grier, Joseph (Slaves listed: Jem)
- Griffith, Abraham (Slaves listed: Un-named teenaged girl)
- Grigg, Robert (Slaves listed: Tim)
- Growdon, Lawrence (Slaves listed: Un-named woman, boy and man)
- Hanna, James Esq. (Slaves listed: Amos, Isabell)
- Harris, Hannah (Slaves listed: Phoebe, Ben, Patt, Ade, John, Bess, Nan, Dick, Patt (2), Henry, Kitty, Prime, Fanny)
- Harris, John (Slaves listed: Un-named man)
- Hart, ? (Slaves listed: un-named female)
- Hart, Joseph (Slaves listed: Susan, Moris)
- Hart, Joseph (2) (Slaves listed: Elizabeth)
- Hart, Josiah (Slaves listed: Davie)
- Hart, William (Slaves listed: Cuff, Isable)
- Harvey, Sarah (Slaves listed: Peggy, Charles)
- Hegeman, John (Slaves listed: Cuff, Bess)
- Hicks, Gilbert (Slaves listed: unnamed man)
- Hilligas, George (Slaves listed: Cato)
- Hoekley, Thomas (Slaves listed: Nell, Poll)
- Hogeland, Daniel (Slaves listed: Joseph Limehous, Elizabeth Limehouse)
- Hogeland, Dirick (Slaves listed: Tom, Dinah, Harry)
- Hogeland, Henry (Slaves listed: Mary)
- Hollas, Abraham (Slaves listed: Rachel)
- Howell, Joseph (Slaves listed: Bob)
- Hunt, Joseph (Slaves listed: Joshua)
- Huston, John (Slaves listed: Tom)
- Irvin, Arthur (Slaves listed: Luce, Peter, Myrtill, Call, Cap, Isaac)
- Irwin, Nathaniel (Slaves listed: Cato, Pegg, Phill)
- Jamison, ? (Slaves listed: Prince)
- Jenks, John (Slaves listed: un-named slave)
- Johnson, Gersham (Slaves listed: Prince)
- Johnson, Lawrence (Slaves listed: Frank)
- Jolly, James (Slaves listed: Boston)
- Jones, Samuel (Slaves listed: Dick)
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: Edams, Hugh
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1791-April 15
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: September 15, 1791
Notes:
- Slave Name: Scott, Will
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1798-January 18
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: July 16, 1798
Notes:
- Slave Name: Peter
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-May 10
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: November 04, 1794
Notes:
- Slave Name: Bram
Sex: Male
Age: 40a
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Runaway
Description: Negro Man
Source: 85
Date of Record: September 02, 1795
Notes: Ran away August 24, 1795. Described in the runaway ad as "about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, leans forward in his walk, loves spirits, and is fond of a violin, one of which he took with him."
- Slave Name: Tone
Sex: Male
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Edams, James
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Abraham
Sex: Male
Age: 32
Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Ellicott, Nathaniel
City or Township: Buckingham
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: McDaniel, Rachel
Sex: Female
Age: 25a
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Status: Manumitted
in 1787 Description: Mulatto
Source: 72
Date of Record: May 23, 1787
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Feaster, David
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Sal
Sex: Female
Age: 19
Date of Birth: 1761 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Fenton, John
City or Township: Southampton
Occupation: Innholder
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jude
Sex: Female
Age: 05
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Rachel
Sex: Female
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Fenton, Joseph
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jim
Sex: Male
Age: 18
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Peter
Sex: Male
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Fenton, Mathias
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation: Innkeeper
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Harry
Sex: Male
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 30
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Follwell, Thomas
City or Township: Southampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Harry
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Garrison, Charles
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Stace
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Arem
Sex: Male
Age: 30
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Gillespie, George
City or Township: Bristol
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Rosetta
Sex: Female
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Till
Sex: Female
Age: 22
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sam
Sex: Male
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Gilleylan, John, also spelled Gilleylen.
City or Township: Southampton Township
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes: Gilleylan's 1751 estate sale included two enslaved children, as excerpted below:
TO be sold, by way of publick vendue, on Monday the thirteenth of May next, at the dwelling house of John Gilleylen, in the township of Southampton, in the county of Bucks, viz. . . .(description of a large country estate)
There is likewise to be sold, at the time and place aforesaid, a Negroe-boy, and a Negroe-girl, . . .(description of assorted livestock and goods).
JOHN GILLEYLEN.
- Slave Name: Not named
Sex: Male
Age: Age not stated, but described as a "boy"
Date of Birth: Not known, prior to 1751
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negroe-boy"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 9 May 1751.
Date of Record: 09 May 1751
Notes: To be publicly auctioned on May 13, 1751 as part of an estate sale
- Slave Name: Not named
Sex: Female
Age: Age not stated, but described as a "girl"
Date of Birth: Not known, prior to 1751
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negroe-girl"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 9 May 1751.
Date of Record: 09 May 1751
Notes: To be publicly auctioned on May 13, 1751 as part of an estate sale
- Slave Name: Lilly
Sex: Female
Age: "35 years of age"
Date of Birth: circa 1715
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negroe woman"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 31 May 1750.
Date of Record: 31 May 1750
Notes: Born in Bermuda. Previously owned by a Mr. Bailey of Lewistown in Sussex County, Delaware. Escaped from Gilleylen on 26 May 1750. Text of ad placed by Gilleylen to recover her:
RUN away, on the 26th of this inst. May, in the night, from John Gilleylen, of the township of Southampton, in Bucks county, a Negroe woman, named Lilly, 35 years of age, born in Bermudas, about 5 feet 6 inches high, a little pitted with the small pox:
Had on when she went away, a good homespun striped peticoat, a new green serge ditto, a linnen ditto, 3 jackets of the same sort of cloth; she took with her several other good clothes, and some cash; she formerly belonged to Mr. Bailey of Lewistown, Pilot, and is supposed to be secreted some-where in Philadelphia. Whoever takes up said Negroe woman, and brings her to Mr. Francis Manny, Sale-maker in Chestnut-street, shall have Thirty Shillings reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN GILLEYLEN.
N.B. As it is supposed she intends to go to Bermudas or Lewistown, all masters of vessels and others are desired not to carry her off.
- Slaveholder Name: Green, Alice
City or Township: Bristol
Occupation: Widow
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: John
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1797-July 24
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: November 01, 1797
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Green, John
City or Township: Bristol
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1796-April 03
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: August 10, 1796
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Grier, Agnes
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation: Widow
Slaveholder Notes: "Widow of John Grier"
- Slave Name: Hector
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1788-February (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: April 09, 1789
Notes: 1789 Registration notes age as "10 Months Old."
- Slave Name: Herod
Sex: Male
Age: 05 Years and 10 Months
Date of Birth: 1783-February (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: April 09, 1789
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Grier, James
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation: V.D.M.
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Eve
Sex: Female
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Grier, John
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Bess
Sex: Female
Age: 22
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Caesar
Sex: Male
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Grier, John (2)
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Alexander
Sex: Male
Age: 12
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Grier, Joseph
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jem
Sex: Male
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Griffith, Abraham
City or Township: Northampton Township
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Not named in ad
Sex: Female
Age: "18 years of age"
Date of Birth: 1733 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 31
Description: "Mulattoe wench"
Source: Pennsylvania Gazette, 9 May 1751.
Date of Record: 09 May 1751
Notes: Advertised for sale by Griffith in May 1751:
TO be sold by ABRAHAM GRIFFITH, jun. in Northampton township, Bucks county, on the 24th of this inst. A likely team of horses, waggon and cart, and sundry other creatures; Also a Mulattoe wench, 18 years of age, has about 13 years to serve; is fit for town or country business.
- Slaveholder Name: Grigg, Robert
City or Township: Upper Makefield
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Tim
Sex: Male
Age: 14
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Growdon, Lawrence
City or Township: Trevose (estate)
Occupation: Merchant, politician, judge, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1750-1764.
Slaveholder Notes: Lived 1694-1770. Will proved May 1, 1770. (Source: "Wills: Abstracts: Book 3 : Bucks Co, PA 1760-1778," http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/pafiles.htm, Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Thera.)
- Slave Name: No name recorded
Sex: Female
Age: "between Thirty and Forty Years old"
Date of Birth: 1706-1716 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negro Woman"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, August 14, 1746
Date of Record: August 14, 1746
Notes: Offered for sale in 1746, along with a 12-year old boy: "To be SOLD, A Likely Negro WOMAN, fit for Town or Country Business, with, or without, a likely Negro BOY. The Woman is between Thirty and Forty Years old, and the Boy about Twelve. Enquire of LAWRENCE GROWDON, at Trevose, in Bucks County."
- Slave Name: No name recorded
Sex: Male
Age: 12a
Date of Birth: 1734 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negro Boy"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, August 14, 1746
Date of Record: August 14, 1746
Notes: Offered for sale in 1746, along with a 12-year old boy: "To be SOLD, A Likely Negro WOMAN, fit for Town or Country Business, with, or without, a likely Negro BOY. The Woman is between Thirty and Forty Years old, and the Boy about Twelve. Enquire of LAWRENCE GROWDON, at Trevose, in Bucks County."
- Slave Name: No name recorded
Sex: Male
Age: "about 29 years of age"
Date of Birth: 1721 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negroe man"
Source: Pennsylvania Gazette, 3 May 1750
Date of Record: August 14, 1746
Notes: Offered for sale in May 1750: "To be sold by LAWRENCE GROWDON, At Trevose, in Bucks county, A LIKELY Negroe man, about 29 years of age, a good hand at most sorts of husbandry work. He has a wife in West-Jersey, about two miles from Yeardley's ferry, and is very desirous of a master in that neighborhood."
- Slaveholder Name: Hanna, James, Esquire
City or Township: Newtown
Occupation: Recorder
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Amos
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1797-February 09
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: June 30, 1797
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isabell
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1791-November 09
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 13, 1792
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Harris, Hannah
City or Township: Newtown
Occupation: "Gentlewoman"
Slaveholder Notes: Wife and widow of John Harris. The home of Hannah Harris in Newtown was used as a headquarters by General George Washington directly after the Battle of Trenton. He stayed there December 26-30, 1776.
- Slave Name: Phoebe
Sex: Female
Age: 00 Years and 09 Months
Date of Birth: 1779 or 1780 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Ben
Sex: Male
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Patt
Sex: Female
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Ade
Sex: Male
Age: 04
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: John
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Bess
Sex: Female
Age: 08
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Nan
Sex: Female
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Dick
Sex: Male
Age: 45
Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Patt
Sex: Female
Age: 45
Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Henry
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1790-February 06
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: July 20, 1790
Notes:
- Slave Name: Kitty
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1797-March 01
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: June 30, 1797
Notes:
- Slave Name: Prime
Sex: Male
Age: 24
Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Fanny
Sex: Female
Age: 38
Date of Birth: 1742 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Harris, John
City or Township: Newtown
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes: Lived 1713-1773. Husband of Hannah Harris. Tanner and merchant.
- Slave Name: Name not given in ad
Sex: Male
Age: "about 30 Years of Age"
Date of Birth: circa 1733
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negroe Man"
Source: Pennsylvania Gazette, 24 February 1763
Date of Record: 24 February 1763
Notes: Offered for sale in February 1763 along with a white servant girl:
To be SOLD,
A Strong hearty Servant Girl's Time, who has almost six Years to serve, this Country born. Also a Negroe Man, about 30 Years of Age, capable of every Kind of Plantation Business, and very handy in butchering, cutting, salting, &c.
Enquire of JOHN HARRIS, in Newtown, Bucks County.
- Slaveholder Name: Hart, ?
City or Township: Plumstead
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes: Original copy is hard to read due to damage. Spelling of name is a guess.
- Slave Name: ?
Sex: Female
Age: 13
Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: Original copy is damaged, making the name unreadable.
- Slaveholder Name: Hart, Joseph
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation: Miller
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Susan
Sex: Female
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1787-March 01
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 11, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Moris
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1789-January 10
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 11, 1789
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Hart, Joseph (2)
City or Township: Warminster
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Age: 14
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Hart, Josiah
City or Township: Southampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Davie
Sex: Male
Age: 20a
Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Status: Runaway
Description: Negro Lad
Source: 83
Date of Record: January 29, 1800
Notes: Ran away "some time ago" when advertised in 1800 for his return. Described in the runaway ad as "near five feet ten inches high, of a yellow complexion, has lost one of his fore teeth with the stroke of a sledge hammer."
- Slaveholder Name: Hart, William
City or Township: Plumstead
Occupation: Blacksmith
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Cuff
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Runaway
Description: Negro
Source: 73
Date of Record: March 12, 1783
Notes: Ran away December 25, 1782. Described in runaway ad as "5 feet, 8 inches high...Said Negroe is an active fellow with horses, has been used to driving a carriage and tending race horses; it is most likely he will incline to fall into that employ or tending a stable, as he has been seen in Philadelphia."
- Slave Name: Isable
Sex: Female
Age: 19
Date of Birth: 1761 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Harvey, Sarah
City or Township: Falls Township
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Peggy
Sex: Female
Age: 26
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Charles
Sex: Male
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Hegeman, John
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Cuff
Sex: Male
Age: 70
Date of Birth: 1710 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Bess
Sex: Female
Age: 05
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Hicks, Gilbert
City or Township: Middletown
Occupation: Sheriff
Slaveholder Notes: From J. H. Battle, History of
Bucks County, page 446: "The celebrity of Gilbert Hicks is of a less enviable character, he was high
sheriff of the county in 1776 and an ardent tory. Even after the declaration of
independence had been promulgated he proclaimed the opening of court in the name
of the king. This offended the patriotic citizens beyond measure. A large number
of people assembled at Newtown, then the county-seat, on the first day of the
session. Hicks was then living at Four Lanes’ Ends and had sufficient discretion
to remain at his home. A number of his friends mingled with the crowd to
discover the drift of their deliberations, while a negro slave
was mounted on a fleet horse to apprise him of the result. When it was learned
that the popular indignation was such as to endanger his life the negro
started for home with this intelligence as fast as be could go. When his object
became apparent several horsemen started in hot pursuit, but failed to overtake
him. It is said that Hicks was secreted in the garret of a neighbor for several
days, but finally made his escape to Nova Scotia, when the British government
rewarded his loyalty with a gift of land and an annual pension."
- Slave Name: name not reported
Sex: Male
Age: not known
Date of Birth:
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: Battle, J. H., Ed. The History of Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1887.
Date of Record: 1776
Notes: According to the story above, Hicks used this
slave as a spy to report on the attitudes of the local population toward
him after the declaration of independence from Great Britain. It
is not stated whether Hicks took his slaves with him to Nova Scotia.
- Slaveholder Name: Hilligas, George
City or Township: Lower Millford
Occupation: Wheelwright
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Cato
Sex: Male
Age: 12
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Hoekley, Thomas
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Nell
Sex: Female
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Poll
Sex: Female
Age: 40
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Hogeland, Daniel
City or Township: Southampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Limehous, Joseph
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1790-October 03
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 16, 1791
Notes:
- Slave Name: Limehouse, Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1792-October 04
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: February 05, 1793
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Hogeland, Dirick
City or Township: Southampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 05
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: 35
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Harry
Sex: Male
Age: 43
Date of Birth: 1737 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Hogeland, Henry
City or Township: Southampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Mary
Sex: Female
Age: 04
Date of Birth: 1784-April 15
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 25, 1789
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Hollas, Abraham
City or Township: Warrington
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Rachel
Sex: Female
Age: 15
Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Mulatto
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Howell, Joseph
City or Township: Upper Makefield
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Bob
Sex: Male
Age: 16a
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Status: Manumitted
Description: Negro
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 25, 1788
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Hunt, Joseph
City or Township: Southampton
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Joshua
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-November 03
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: December 09, 1794
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Huston, John
City or Township:
Northampton Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: "about 24 years of age" Date of Birth:
1760 (calculated) Status: Slave for life--runaway Description:
"Negroe Man" Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 14
April 1784 Date of Record: 14 April 1784 Notes:
Huston ran the following advertisement when Tom ran away in March 1784:
"RUN AWAY, on the 31st ult. from the subscriber, living in Northampton
township, Bucks county, A Negroe Man, named TOM, about 24 years of age, 5
feet 9 inches high; had on, when he went away, two pale blue linsey jackets
with some patches, a bound felt hat, a pair of shoes covered and soaled,
pale blue ribbed stockings and buckskin breeches, with a brown linen shirt.
Whoever takes up the said Negroe shall receive FOUR DOLLARS, if taken in
this county, and lodged in goal, or TWELVE DOLLARS, if committed to
Philadelphia workhouse, and all reasonable charges paid, by JOHN HUSTON.
April 12, 1784.
- Slaveholder Name: Irvin, Arthur
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Luce
Sex: Female
Age: 01 Year and 06 Months
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Peter
Sex: Male
Age: 30
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Myrtill
Sex: Female
Age: 28
Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Call
Sex: Male
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: "bound till 21" (see note)
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "bound till 21 after that time the Property of Mr. Rutherford in New Jersey."
- Slave Name: Cap
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: 04
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Irwin, Nathaniel
City or Township: Warrington
Occupation: Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Cato
Sex: Male
Age: 35
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Pegg
Sex: Female
Age: 17
Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Phill
Sex: Male
Age: ?
Date of Birth: ?
Status: Slave for life
Description: Mulatto
Source: 72 Date of Record: 1780
Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "Son of a Mollattoe Woman a Slave."
- Slaveholder Name: Jamison, ?
City or Township: Warwick Township
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Prince
Sex: Male
Age: 14
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Jenks, John
City or Township:
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes: Slave ownership mentioned in Quaker Middletown Monthly Meeting Minutes, July 08, 1777: "The following Friends still persist in hold slaves: Jonathan Willett, Joseph Thornton, John Jenks, and William Rodman [the latter having it under consideration]"
And, in September 10, 1777 minutes: "John Jenks has set his Negro free." (Source: 90)
- Slave Name: ?
Sex:
Age:
Date of Birth:
Status:
Description:
Source: 90
Date of Record: July 08, 1777 and September 10, 1777
Notes: Unknown slave or slaves held by John Jenks, as mentioned in Quaker Monthly Meeting Minutes, Middletown Meeting. At least one slave was subsequently manumitted.
- Slaveholder Name: Johnson, Gersham
City or Township: Middleton
Occupation: Innholder
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Prince
Sex: Male
Age: 19
Date of Birth: 1761 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Johnson, Lawrence
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Frank
Sex: Male
Age: 07 Years and 10 Months
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Jolly, James
City or Township: Lower Makefield
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Boston
Sex: Male
Age: 31
Date of Birth: 1749 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Jones, Samuel
City or Township: Plumstead
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Dick
Sex: Male
Age: ?
Date of Birth: ?
Status: Slave for life
Description: Negro
Source: 74
Date of Record: June 09, 1757
Notes: Ran away in 1757 and captured in Chester County.
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