Bucks County, PA Slaveholders, Surnames P-S
Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Parsons, George (Slaves listed: Tony, Ishmail, Elizabeth, Richard, Isaac, Tom)
- Patterson, Nicholas (Slaves listed: Tone, Jean, Mark, Eff, Jack)
- Pennington, John (Slaves listed: Isaac, Fanny)
- Praul, Elizabeth (Slaves listed: Margaret)
- Praul, John (Slaves listed: Jude, Jack, Suk, Cato, Sam, Nan)
- Price, Smith (Slaves listed: Esther)
- Ramsay, Hugh (Slaves listed: Jupiter)
- Ramsay, John (Slaves listed: Matt, Patt, Peter, Hannah, Sall)
- Ramsay, Robert (Slaves listed: Solomon)
- Ramsay, Thomas (Slaves listed: Bett)
- Ramsay, William (Slaves listed: Richard, John)
- Richardson, ? (Slaves listed: Hagar)
- Riche, Thomas (Slaves listed: Jame, Jane, Chrissy, Silvia, Luce, Isaac, Bell, Clementina, Melora, Amoreh, Peg, Emilia, Matilda, Fidelia, Phill, Jamaica, Jack, Ann, Dinah)
- Roberts, Elizabeth (Slaves listed: unnamed "Negro boy")
- Roberts, Jonathan (Slaves listed: Amos)
- Roberts, William (Slaves listed: Derry)
- Robinson, Bob (Slaves listed: Nance Cook, Jack)
- Rodman, John (Slaves listed: Un-named man)
- Rodman, William (Slaves listed: Rosetta Grant, Edmund Grant, Fanny Grant, Phillis, Leon, Holland, Maria, Rose, Mary, Phillis, Sal, Plymouth, Caesar, Pegg, Rose)
- Ruckman, James (Slaves listed: Un-named female child)
- Rue, Richard (Slaves listed: Ishmael, Robert, Hannah, Isaac, Tom, Sarah, Cuffey, Phillip)
- Sackett, Joseph (Slaves listed: Cornwell)
- Severns, Daniel (Slaves listed: Nell, Jem, John)
- Shiwell, Robert (Slaves listed: Jess, Feno, Jamaica)
- Shull, Tobias (Slaves listed: Tom)
- Spear, Phebe (Slaves listed: Tom)
- Stewart, Robert (Slaves listed: Pero)
- Stewart, Thomas (Slaves listed: Florence)
- Stillwell, Richard (Slaves listed: Phoebe, Tom)
- Strickland, Amos (Slaves listed: Charles, John Cuffee, unnamed woman and child)
- Strickland, Margaret (Slaves listed: Ish, Nance, Han)
- Swift, John (Slaves listed: Bell, Lewis, Nell, Brinah, Belinda [born 1720], Juliana, Jack, Belinda [born 1788], Caesar, Charlotte, Isaac)
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: Parsons, George
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes: The property of George Parsons was advertised for sale by the Bucks County Sheriff. The description of the estate includes "a negroe man:"
Newtown, Bucks county, April 7, 1786.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas to me directed, will be exposed to public Sale, on the premises, on TUESDAY, the second day of May next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, a certain Messuage, Plantation, and Tract of Land, situate in Northampton township, containing about 180 acres, be the same more or less; having thereon a good two story stone house, good barn, &c. Also will be sold at the same time and place, winter grain in the ground, horses, cows, waggon and gears, feather beds, case of drawers, tables, chairs, plough and harrow, two copper stills; also a negroe man. All late the property of George Parsons. Seized and taken in execution, and to be sold, by
WILLIAM ROBERTS, Sheriff.
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 12, 1786
- Slave Name: Tony
Sex: Male
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: Ishmail
Sex: Male
Age: 31
Date of Birth: 1749 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Richard
Sex: Male
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: 03
Date of Birth: 1777 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
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:
- Slaveholder Name: Patterson, Nicholas
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Tone
Sex: Male
Age: 26
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jean
Sex: Female
Age: 24
Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Mark
Sex: Male
Age: 11
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Eff
Sex: Female
Age: 04
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Pennington, John
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1787-January 11
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 20, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Fanny
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1789-January 20
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 20, 1789
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Praul, Elizabeth
City or Township:
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "Wife of Peter Praul. Returned by her on Account of the Incapacity of her Husband, He being struck with the Palsy."
- Slave Name: Margaret
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Praul, John
City or Township:
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jude
Sex: Female
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: 35
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Suk
Sex: Female
Age: 00 Years and 03 Months
Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: Status is not specified in registration, but due to her age, should be as listed, until age 28.
- Slave Name: Cato
Sex: Male
Age: 38
Date of Birth: 1742 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sam
Sex: Male
Age: 03
Date of Birth: 1777 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Nan
Sex: Female
Age: 32
Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Price, Smith
City or Township: Plumstead
Occupation: "Store keeper"
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Esther
Sex: Female
Age: 23a
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Manumitted
in 1787 Description: Negro
Source: 72
Date of Record: May 23, 1787
Notes: Partial text of manumission papers: "Manumate and set free my Negroe Slave Named Esther about twenty three years of Age."
- Slaveholder Name: Ramsay, Hugh
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jupiter
Sex: Male
Age: 33
Date of Birth: 1747 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Ramsay, John
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Matt
Sex: Female
Age: 44
Date of Birth: 1736 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Patt
Sex: Female
Age: 08
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Peter
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sall
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1789-January 07
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: June 09, 1789
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Ramsay, Robert
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Solomon
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Ramsay, Thomas
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Bett
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
Slaveholder Name: Ramsay, William
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Richard
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1782-August 01
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 31, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: John
Sex: Male
Age: 28
Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Richardson, ?
City or Township: Falls
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Hagar
Sex: Female
Age: 08 Years and 05 Months
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Riche, Thomas (In some records as Thomas Ricke)
City or Township: Falls Township
Occupation::
Merchant Slaveholder Notes: Largest slaveholder, by number of slaves registered, in Bucks County. Riche was a merchant who sold slaves as part of his inventory (see Pennsylvania Slave Merchants)/ See also his list of persons enslaved in Philadelphia.
- Slave Name: Jame
Sex: Male
Age: 60
Date of Birth: 1720 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jane
Sex: Female
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Chrissy
Sex: Female
Age: 00 Years and 06 Months
Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
Status: is presumed from the registered age, which indicates she was probably born after the March 01 1780 cut-off date for slaves for life.
- Slave Name: Silvia
Sex: Female
Age: 30
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Luce
Sex: Female
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: 12
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Bell
Sex: Female
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Clementina
Sex: Female
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Melora
Sex: Female
Age: 26
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Amoreh
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: Peg
Sex: Female
Age: 13
Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Emilia
Sex: Female
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Matilda
Sex: Female
Age: 05
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Fidelia
Sex: Female
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Phill a.k.a. Philip Potter
Sex: Male
Age: 40 (Note: the age reported in the runaway ad may be more accurate)
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated from registration); or 1743 (calculated from runaway ad)
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negro man"
Source: 72 | New Jersey Gazetteer, April 1779
Date of Record: Registration: 1780; reported run away: 2 April 1779
Notes: Ran away in March 1778, but was apparently recovered by the time of registration in 1780. Text of runaway ad:
RAN AWAY the 6th of March last, from the subscriber living in Bucks county, in the state of Pennsylvania, a negro man, who calls himself Philip Potter; a likely well set fellow, about 36 years old, has a remarkable mole on the corner of his right eye. Had on when he went off, a dark homespun coattee, red waistcoat and buckskin breeches, dark homespun stockings; but having others with him may change them. Whoever takes up the said negro and secures him in Newtown gaol, or delivers him to his master, shall receive One Hundred Dollars reward, as witness my hand this 2d of April, 1779, THOMAS RICHE.
N.B. Whoever apprehends the above described fellow, must be upon their guard, or he will escape from them.
Slave Name: Jamaica
Sex: Male
Age: 40
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Date of Birth: 1757 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Ann
Sex: Female
Age: 53
Date of Birth: 1727 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: 28
Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Roberts, Elizabeth
City or Township: Attleborough, or Four Lanes End (modern day Langhorne)
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes: Placed advertisement to sell a house and four acres in Attleborough, also "The Time of a healthy stout NEGRO BOY for sale," with directions to inquire on the premises.
- Slave Name: Not named
Sex: Male
Age: Age not given, described as "Negro Boy"
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Term slave
Description: "Negro Boy"
Source: Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 07 August 1800, page 1.
Date of Record: Advertisement dated 28 July 1800
Notes: Offered for sale in July 1800 as follows: "N.B. The Time of a healthy stout NEGRO BOY for sale--Enquire as above."
- Slaveholder Name: Roberts, Jonathan
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Amos
Sex: Male
Age: 19a
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro Man
Source: 86
Date of Record: May 07, 1794
Notes: Ran away April 29, 1794. Described in the runaway ad as "five feet eight inches high, a well set stout made fellow, a little stoop shouldered when he walks." His status was described as "indented," which may or may not refer to the status "slave to age 28."
- Slaveholder Name: Roberts, William
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation:: Yeoman
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Derry
Sex: Male
Age: 34
Date of Birth: 1746 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Robinson, Bob
City or Township: Bedminster
Occupation:: Yeoman
Slaveholder Notes: Slave Jack registered in 1789 by Thomas Wright, attorney of Bob Robinson. In the 1780 Registration, he is listed as Robert Robinson.
- Slave Name: Cook, Nance
Sex: Female
Age: 18
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 31
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to serve till 31 Years of Age."
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1779-October
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 10, 1789
Notes: Late registration. By law this slave probably should have been emancipated after the deadline in 1780.
- Slaveholder Name: Rodman, John
City or Township:
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Name not provided in ad
Sex: Male
Age: "about 50 years of age"
Date of Birth: circa 1706
Status: Slave for life -- captured runaway
Description: "Negroe man"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 23 September 1756
Date of Record: 24 August 1756
Notes: Captured and jailed in Lancaster County. Jailer John Clark placed the following ad:
Lancaster, August 24, 1756.
NOW in the goal of this county, a Negroe man, who says he belongs to Mr. John Rodman, in Bucks county, he is a little short fellow, about 50 years of age. These are to desire his master to come or send for him, otherwise he will be sold for his fees in four weeks after the above date, by
JOHN CLARK, goaler.
- Slaveholder Name: Rodman, William
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation: Yeoman
Slaveholder Notes: Rodman also lists his occupation as "gentleman" on some registrations and "farmer" on others.
Rodman's slave ownership is 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: "5/3/1778 - William Rodman disowned for holding slaves and participating as a judge in matters relating to War." (Source: 90)
- Slave Name: Rosetta Grant
Sex: Female
Age: 2 years old at registration.
Date of Birth: 1786-February 10
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negro Woman" (from manumission document)
Source: 72
Date of Record: Registration: January 21, 1789; Manumission: June 24, 1809
Notes: Partial text of manumission papers: "Manumit and set free, discharge from my service and abandon agreeably to law a Negro Woman Named Rosetta Grant aged between twenty three and twenty four years and also her female child Fanny and her Male child Edmund."
- Slave Name: Edmund Grant
Sex: Male
Age: Age not specified in manumission papers; described as a "child"
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Manumitted in 1809
Description: "Male Child"
Source: 72
Date of Record: June 24, 1809
Notes: Partial text of manumission papers: "Manumit and set free, discharge from my service and abandon agreeably to law a Negro Woman Named Rosetta Grant aged between twenty three and twenty four years and also her female child Fanny and her Male child Edmund."
- Slave Name: Fanny Grant
Sex: Female
Age: Age not specified in manumission papers; described as a "child"
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Manumitted in 1809
Description: "Female Child"
Source: 72
Date of Record: June 24, 1809
Notes: Partial text of manumission papers: "Manumit and set free, discharge from my service and abandon agreeably to law a Negro Woman Named Rosetta Grant aged between twenty three and twenty four years and also her female child Fanny and her Male child Edmund."
- Slave Name: Phillis
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1792-May 31
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: September 17, 1792
Notes:
- Slave Name: Leon
Sex: Male
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Holland
Sex: Male
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1781-December 06
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 21, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Maria
Sex: Female
Age: 04
Date of Birth: 1784-March 22
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 21, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Rose
Sex: Female
Age: 75
Date of Birth: 1705 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Mary
Sex: Female
Age: 50
Date of Birth: 1730 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Phillis
Sex: Female
Age: 35
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sall
Sex: Female
Age: 18
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Plymouth
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Caesar
Sex: Male
Age: 01
Date of Birth: 1779-December 06
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: Exact date of birth is noted in 1780 Registration.
- Slave Name: Pegg
Sex: Female
Age: 01
Date of Birth: 1788-February 27
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 21, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Rose
Sex: Female
Age: 22
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Ruckman, James
City or Township: Plumstead
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: ?
Sex: Female
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: No name returned on 1780 Registration.
- Slaveholder Name: Rue, Richard
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Ishmael
Sex: Male
Age: 14
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Robert
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1782-November 10
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 16, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: 44
Date of Birth: 1736 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: 18
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 50
Date of Birth: 1730 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sarah
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Cuffey
Sex: Male
Age: 12
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Phillip
Sex: Male
Age: 11
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Sackett, Joseph
City or Township: Wrightstown
Occupation:: Yeoman
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Cornwell
Sex: Male
Age: 32
Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Severns, Daniel
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Nell
Sex: Female
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jem
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1792-February 25
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: August 14, 1792
Notes:
- Slave Name: John
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-February 13
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Mulatto
Source: 72
Date of Record: August 11, 1794
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Shiwell, Robert
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jess
Sex: Male
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Feno
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-October 15
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: April 14, 1795
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jamaica
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Shull, Tobias
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes: Shull was a "Bucks County Associator," serving in the New Britain Company during the Revolution.
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: ? "man"
Date of Birth: ?
Status: Runaway
Description: Negro Man
Source: 77 (full text of two different ads)
Date of Record: December 31, 1778
Notes: Ran away on December 20, 1778. Described in the runaway ad as "well made, about six feet high...He has a fiddle with him, and plays with his left hand." He had been recently bought from William Brown of Ten Mile Run in New Jersey.
- Slaveholder Name: Spear, Phebe
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Stewart, Robert
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Pero
Sex: Male
Age: 11 Years and 6 Months
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Stewart, Thomas
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Florence
Sex: Female
Age: 12
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Mulatto
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Stillwell, Richard
City or Township: Lower Makefield
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Phoebe
Sex: Female
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Mulatto
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "A Mollattoe Slave for Life."
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Strickland, Amos
City or Township: Newtown
Occupation:: Jailer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Charles
Sex: Male
Age: 24a
Date of Birth: 1716 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negro Man"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 20, May 11, 1738
Date of Record: April 20, 1738
Notes: Ran away in April 1738. Text of runaway ad placed by Amos Strickland to recover him:
RUN away on the 18th Inst. from Amos Strickland, of Newtown in Bucks County, a Negro Man, named Charles, aged about 24 Years, of middle Stature, well set, does not talk good English, on one of his Ankles is a large Scar, and his Feet having been frozen he walks a little crippling: Had on an old Castor Hat, a linnen Cap with Callico Border, a dirty colour'd Kersey Jacket, Leather Breeches stitch'd with 3 Seams along the Knees, a homespun Shirt, yarn Stockings footed, strong Shoes with Hobnails in them. He pretends to be a Tanner. Whoever takes up and secures the said Negro, so that he may be had again, shall have Forty Shillings Reward and reasonable Charges paid by Amos Strickland.
- Slave Name: John Cuffee
Sex: Male
Age: "aged about Twenty-six years"
Date of Birth: circa 1721
Status: Suspected runaway slave
Description: "Negroe Man"
Source: Pennsylvania Gazette, 29 October 1747.
Date of Record: 29 October 1747
Notes: Captured and jailed in Newtown, Bucks County. Text of runaway ad placed by Sheriff Amos Strickland to find his owner:
Philadelphia, Octob. 29, 1747.
TAken up and committed to Newtown-goal in Bucks county, on suspicion of running away, a Negroe man nam'd John Cuffee, aged about Twenty-six years, has a blemish in the right eye, mark'd very much with scars on each side his face, and all over his forehead, has a light colour'd broadcloth surtout coat, with mohair buttons. He says he did belong to one John Harding, master of a ship from Madeira to Patapsco in Maryland, and that his master was shot in the voyage by a Spanish Privateer. Any person that can claim a property to the said Negroe, is hereby desir'd to come and pay charges, and take him away.
AMOS STRICKLAND, sheriff.
John Cuffee is described by Strickland as having substantial tribal scarification markings: "Mark'd very much with scars on each side his face, and all over his forehead." The description matches that of a fugitive slave from Maryland, as in the ad below. The below ad states Cuffee ran away on November 27, 1747, a month after he was jailed in Newtown. He may have been returned to Smith and escaped again:
Philadelphia, December 3, 1747.
RUN away on 27th of November, from David Smith, living in Worcester county, Maryland, a Negro man, named Cuffee, is much scarrifi'd on each side of his face, and all over his forehead, has a blemish over his right eye, and aged about 26 years; Had on when he went away, a scarlet broadcloth greatcoat, and a lightish brown coloured surtout coat, a blue pair of broad cloth breeches, new shoes, Thread stockings, with large clocks, and an old felt hat. Whoever takes up and secures said Negro, so that his master, Thomas Muir, or the subscriber may have him again, shall have Ten-shillings reward, besides what the law allows, paid by
DAVID SMITH.
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Slave Name: Not named in ad
Sex: Female
Age:
"woman"
Date of Birth: prior to 1751
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negroe woman"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1 August 1751
Date of Record: 1 August 1751
Notes: Offered for sale, along with her child, in August 1751: "To be sold by said Strickland, a lusty Negroe woman and child."
- Slaveholder Name: Strickland, Margaret
City or Township: Newtown
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Ish
Sex: Male
Age: 24
Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Nance
Sex: Female
Age: 22
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Han
Sex: Female
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Swift, John
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation:: Gentleman
Slaveholder Notes: Also lists his occupation as farmer on some registrations.
- Slave Name: Bill
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Lewis
Sex: Male
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Nell
Sex: Female
Age: 21
Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Brinah
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Belinda
Sex: Female
Age: 60
Date of Birth: 1720 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Juliana
Sex: Female
Age: 2 years old
Date of Birth: 1786-October 20
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 23, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: ?
Date of Birth: ?
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Belinda
Sex: Female
Age: about 6 months old
Date of Birth: 1788-June 25
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source:
Date of Record: January 23, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Caesar
Sex: Male
Age: 36
Date of Birth: 1744 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Charlotte
Sex: Female
Age: about three months old at registration -
Date of Birth: 1794-December 04
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72>
Date of Record: March 12, 1795
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: about one month old at registration
Date of Birth: 1791-October 20
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: November 16, 1791
Notes:
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