ucks County, PA Slaveholders, Surnames T-Y

 

1. Slave Name: Ann
   Sex: Female
   Age: 45
   Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Will
   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:

    

3. Slave Name: Tony
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Sarah
   Sex: Female
   Age: 00 Years and 04 Months
   Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: Status is presumed from the estimated date of birth, which places this child born after the cut-off date of March 1 1780 for slaves for life.

    

2. Slave Name: Euphamy
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

3. Slave Name: Nance
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: Titus
   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:

    

5. Slave Name: Mary
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

6. Slave Name: Jem
   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:

    

7. Slave Name: Prince
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Bill
   Sex: Male
   Age: 23
   Date of Birth: 1757 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Rose
   Sex: Female
   Age: ?
   Date of Birth: ?
   Status: To be manumitted at age 30
   Description: "Little Negro Girl"
   Source: Will of Richard Thomas, 1772: Hilltown, Bucks County, PA
   Date of Record: May 08, 1776
   Notes: Will of Richard Thomas, dated 1772 and proved 1776, bequeaths Rose to his daughter Martha, and stipulates that Rose is to be freed at age 30. Partial text of will: "I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Martha the full and Just Sume of fifty Pounds of like money as affore said, and also my little Negroe Girl Called Rose Untill She attains to the age of thirty years, and my will is that then, if She lives to the age of thirty years, She Shall from thence forward be a free Negroe as although She had never been a slave."

 

1. Slave Name: Felis
   Sex: Female
   Age: ?
   Date of Birth: ?
   Status: To be manumitted at age 30
   Description: Negro
   Source: Will of Richard Thomas, 1772: Hilltown, Bucks County, PA
   Date of Record: May 08, 1776
   Notes: Will of Richard Thomas, dated 1772 and proved in 1776, stipulates that Felis is to be freed at age 30. Partial text of will: " I give and bequeath unto my Negroe Felis her freedom when she Attains to the age of thirty years and that She shall from thence forward to a free woman."

    

2. Slave Name: Rose
   Sex: Female
   Age: ?
   Date of Birth: ?
   Status: To be manumitted at age 30
   Description: "Little Negro Girl"
   Source: Will of Richard Thomas, 1772: Hilltown, Bucks County, PA
   Date of Record: May 08, 1776
   Notes: Will of Richard Thomas, dated 1772 and proved 1776, bequeaths Rose to his daughter Martha, and stipulates that Rose is to be freed at age 30. Partial text of will: "I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Martha the full and Just Sume of fifty Pounds of like money as affore said, and also my little Negroe Girl Called Rose Untill She attains to the age of thirty years, and my will is that then, if She lives to the age of thirty years, She Shall from thence forward be a free Negroe as although She had never been a slave."

 

1. Slave Name: Nat
   Sex: Male
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Harry
   Sex: Male
   Age: 01 Year and 02 Months
   Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Sal
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: Joe
   Sex: Male
   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:

    

5. Slave Name: Eve
   Sex: Female
   Age: 27
   Date of Birth: 1753 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

6. Slave Name: Cartar
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Violet
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Rose
   Sex: Female
   Age: 09
   Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: Mulatto
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Pompey
   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: 1780 Registration notes: "bound in the Jerseys."

    

4. Slave Name: Cuff
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Prince
   Sex: Male
   Age: 20
   Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Joshua
   Sex: Male
   Age: 02
   Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Flora
   Sex: Female
   Age: 45
   Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

4. Slave Name: Jud
   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:

    

5. Slave Name: Henry
   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:

    

6. Slave Name: Henry
   Sex: Male
   Age: 53
   Date of Birth: 1727 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

7. Slave Name: Fema
   Sex: Female
   Age: 04
   Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

8. Slave Name: Lena
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Sarah
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Sarah
   Sex: Female
   Age: 45
   Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Phoebe
   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:

    

3. Slave Name: Sarah
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: Thomas
   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:

    

5. Slave Name: Levi
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Poll
   Sex: Female
   Age: 01
   Date of Birth: 1787-September 05
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: February 10, 1789
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Bill
   Sex: Male
   Age: -
   Date of Birth: 1797-September 24
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: December 16, 1797
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Anthony
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Mary
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Sall
   Sex: Female
   Age: 05
   Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Mime
   Sex: Female
   Age: 02
   Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Cate
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Thom
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Cuffy
   Sex: Male
   Age: 14
   Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life -- ran away in 1792
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:  Ran away in 1792.  Simon Vanaisdalen (spelled Vanartsdalen in the advertisement) placed the following ad in the Pennsylvania Gazette to recover Cuff:
   FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
   RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Southampton township, Bucks county, on the 1st of September instant, a Negroe Man, named CUFF, about 27 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, remarkable large feet and hands, and has lost several of his upper teeth; had on when he went away, a full'd lightish brown colour linsey coat, shirt, tow trowsers, and an old hat. Whoever takes up said Negroe and brings him to his master, or secures him so that he may get him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
   SIMON VANARTSDALEN.

    

3. Slave Name: Rachel
   Sex: Female
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Tom
   Sex: Male
   Age:  Age not reported, but described as a "man."
   Date of Birth:  Not known.  Adult in 1799
   Status: Slave for life--runaway
   Description: "Negro Man"
   Source:  Advertisement in The Pennsylvania Gazette, 16 January 1799
   Date of Record: 1799
   Notes:  Ran away:

   One Dollar Reward.
   RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Northampton township, on the 17th of December last, a Negro Man named TOM, about six feet high; had on when he went away an ash coloured coat, of fulled linsey, and brown cloth trowsers. Whoever takes up said negro, and delivers him to his master, shall have the above reward, but no charges paid.
   GARRET VANARTSDALEN.
   N.B. All persons are hereby forbid harbouring said Negro at their peril.
   Jan. 7, 1799.

 

1. Slave Name: Hannah
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Jude
   Sex: Female
   Age: 18
   Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Silvia
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

3. Slave Name: Thom
   Sex: Male
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Flora
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Hagar
   Sex: Female
   Age: 44
   Date of Birth: 1736 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Samuel
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Hannah
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

3. Slave Name: Scippio
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: Fortunatus
   Sex: Male
   Age: 65
   Date of Birth: 1715 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Will
   Sex: Male
   Age: 16
   Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: Negro (Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, December 12, 1787)
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: Sold to Alexander Allair in Philadelphia, who in turn sold him to Tench Coxe.  Will ran away in December 1787 from Coxe. Described in the runaway ad as: "stout built, has good teeth, is rather thin, speaks good English and Low Dutch, swears often. He was born in Bucks county, in the family of Mr. Jacob Vandike, since a slave to Mr. Alexander Allair, in this city. He has been seen in Southampton township, and in this city since he went away, when his eyes were sore from a cold he caught lately, he has a cough of some standing, but it is not very violent."

    

2. Slave Name: Aram
   Sex: Male
   Age: -
   Date of Birth: 1796-September 20
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: December 03, 1796
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Ish
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: Aram
   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:

    

5. Slave Name: Bet
   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:

    

6. Slave Name: Eff
   Sex: Female
   Age: 04
   Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

7. Slave Name: Jack
   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:

    

8. Slave Name: Dinah
   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:

    

9. Slave Name: Pett
   Sex: Female
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Isaac
   Sex: Male
   Age: -
   Date of Birth: 1796-July 10a
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: September 10, 1796
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Agness Bent
   Sex: Female
   Age:  Not reported, but described as a "girl."
   Date of Birth:  Prior to 1781.
   Status: Probably slave for life
   Description: "Mulatto Girl"
   Source:  New Jersey Gazette, 1781
   Date of Record:  January 31, 1781
   Notes:   Agness ran away in late January, 1781.  Text of runaway ad placed by Vanhart:

   Bucks County, January 31, 1781;
   RAN AWAY, from the subscriber, on the 29th ult, a MULATTO GIRL named Agness Bent, had on when she went away, a dark linsey gown and petticoat, light coloured cloak, black bonnet, low heel'd shoes; and as she has taken with her sundry other clothes, she may alter her dress. Whoever takes up said Mulatto shall have Three Hundred Dollars reward, and reasonable charges, paid by me ADAM VANHART. N.B. All persons are hereby forbid to harbour her; if they do, they shall be prosecuted according to law.

 

1. Slave Name: Elijah
   Sex: Male
   Age: 09
   Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: Mulatto
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Cupid
   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: 1780 Registration includes this note: "Admr. To the Estate of John Earles of Warminster decd."

    

2. Slave Name: Sarah
   Sex: Female
   Age: 04
   Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration includes this note: "Admr. To the Estate of John Earles of Warminster decd."

    

3. Slave Name: Betty
   Sex: Female
   Age: 48
   Date of Birth: 1732 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration includes this note: "Admr. To the Estate of John Earles of Warminster decd."

 

1. Slave Name: Caesar
   Sex: Male
   Age:
   Date of Birth: 1730 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Estate Inventory of Abraham Vanhorne. See Isaac Vanhorne, below.
   Date of Record: 1770
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Subiah (not sure of spelling)
   Sex: Female
   Age: "woman"
   Date of Birth: No data available
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: None available
   Source: Estate Inventory of Abraham Vanhorne. See Isaac Vanhorne, below.
   Date of Record: 1770
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Not named
   Sex: Male
   Age: "man"
   Date of Birth: No data available
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: None available
   Source: Estate Inventory of Abraham Vanhorne. See Isaac Vanhorne, below.
   Date of Record: 1770
   Notes:

The 1790 Federal census appears to show a single slave for Isaac Vanhorne. No slaves are enumerated in his household by the time of the 1800 Federal census, nor does he show up in the list of slaveholders in the 1800 Septennial Census for Bucks County. (E-mail correspondence, Tim Conrad to Afrolumens Editor, December 16, 2002:

Caesar would likely be the slave of his father, Abraham Vanhorn. In the estate records for Abraham (will dated 7 Feb 1770, probated 7 Apr 1773), there is an inventory that lists 3 slaves:  man called Caesar, woman called Subiah (? difficult to read), and another slave man (not named).

I would think that Caesar was probably passed on to his son Isaac who inherited part of the estate in the will (there is no mention of slaves in the will).  I didn't see anything that looked like "Subiah" in your PA listings.

Isaac Vanhorn married his second (maybe third) in 1786 at a Presbyterian Church, but he later became a Quaker at the Friend's Meetinghouse in Wrightstown (and is to be buried there). So I'm guessing that he wouldn't have been able to keep a slave while there. In the 1790 census, there's a couple of entries for Isaac Vanhorn, but I'm pretty sure the one for this Isaac has numbers "2-2-4-1-0", the last one indicating one slave. In the entry for 1800, he doesn't have a slave.

Feel free to pass this on to anyone researching slaves in Bucks County.

Tim Conrad, tconrad"at"alum.bucknell.edu)

 

1. Slave Name: Caesar
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Ellen
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Audy
   Sex: Female
   Age: 10 years old
   Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Richard
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Brown, Lucy (a.k.a. Sukey)
   Sex: Female
   Age: ? (adult, married)
   Date of Birth: ?
   Status: Runaway
   Description: "Negro Wench"
   Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 18 and September 08, 1778
   Date of Record: July 18, 1778
   Notes: Ran away from a new owner, Philip Moser of Philadelphia, in mid-1778. scaped with her husband, James Brown, a free Black. Lucy (also called Sukey) is described in the runaway ad as "tall. stutters when she speaks in a hurry." The ad also notes that she was "born and bred in Bucks County."

 

1. Slave Name: Farmer, Isaac
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Jim
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Jim
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Ishmael
   Sex: Male
   Age: 38
   Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
   Status: Runaway
   Description: Negro
   Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 20, 1796
   Date of Record: April 20, 1796
   Notes: Ran away April 12, 1796. Described in the runaway ad as "well set, about five feet eight inches high, very sensible, and of a genteel behaviour, something of a scholar, about thirty-eight years of age, his sight somewhat bad, a blemish in one eye, if not both, but scarcely perceivable, the little finger on his right hand lays flat, the others on the same hand somewhat stiff, with a cut near his elbow, which left a scar; he is subject to drink."

 

1. Slave Name: Priscilla
   Sex: Female
   Age: -
   Date of Birth: 1796-April 30
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: August 30, 1796
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Joseph
   Sex: Male
   Age: -
   Date of Birth: 1799-October 04
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: March 07, 1800
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Gibbs, Richard
   Sex: Male
   Age: 82
   Date of Birth: 1698 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:  Richard Gibbs is the oldest slave to be registered in 1780 in Bucks County. 

    

4. Slave Name: Mike
   Sex: Male
   Age: 02
   Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

5. Slave Name: More, William
   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:

    

6. Slave Name: James
   Sex: Male
   Age: 04
   Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

7. Slave Name: Peg
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Genn
   Sex: Female
   Age: 23
   Date of Birth: 1757 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Bett
   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:

    

3. Slave Name: Bill
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: James
   Sex: Male
   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:

    

5. Slave Name: Ruth
   Sex: Female
   Age: 56
   Date of Birth: 1724 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Peet
   Sex: Male
   Age: 20a
   Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
   Status: Runaway
   Description: Negro Man
   Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, September 03, 1778
   Date of Record: September 03, 1778
   Notes: Ran away in August, 1778. Described in the runaway ad as "five feet ten or eleven inches high."

 

1. Slave Name: Nancy
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Caesar
   Sex: Male
   Age: 40
   Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: Mulatto
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "A Mollattoe Slave for Life."

    

3. Slave Name: Joe
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: John
   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:

    

5. Slave Name: Hann
   Sex: Female
   Age: 13
   Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
   Status: slave to age 31
   Description: Mulatto
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to be free at the age of 31 Years a Mollattoe."

    

6. Slave Name: Isaac
   Sex: Male
   Age: 01
   Date of Birth: 1779-December 25
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration gives exact date of birth for this person.

    

7. Slave Name: Charles
   Sex: Male
   Age: 27
   Date of Birth: 1753 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Amy Cary
   Sex: Female
   Age: 14
   Date of Birth: May 2, 1766
   Status: Slave for life, apparently manumitted at age 18
   Description: "Negroe girl"
   Source: Manumission document, recorded in the (Lower Makefield) Quarterly Meeting book, page 28, 15 January, 1781. Document came up for public auction on eBay in April, 2004.
   Date of Record: 15 January, 1781
   Notes: Partial text of document: "I, Elizabeth Warder, of the Township of Lower Makefield, in the county of Bucks in Pennsylvania, do hereby set free from bondage, my Negroe girl named Amy Carey when she shall arrive at the age of eighteen years which will be on the second day of the fifth month, ano domini, one thousand seven hundred and eighty four." The document further states at the bottom: "Memorandum: that ye above named Amy was born ye 2 day of ye 5th month, 1766."

 

1. Slave Name: Aaron
   Sex: Male
   Age: 02
   Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Daphne
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Jean
   Sex: Female
   Age: 04
   Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Hester
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Will
   Sex: Male
   Age: 45
   Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Phoebe
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: Pompey
   Sex: Male
   Age: 36
   Date of Birth: 1744 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

5. Slave Name: Hannah
   Sex: Female
   Age: 45
   Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Rachel
   Sex: Female
   Age: -
   Date of Birth: 1781-August 14
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: n. d.
   Notes: Registration is not dated.

    

2. Slave Name: Jude
   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:

    

3. Slave Name:  Priam
   Sex: Male
   Age:  Not recorded
   Date of Birth:  Pre-1776
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "old slave"
   Source:  THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTERS L & LI, MANORS AND LARGE LAND GRANTS; NEGRO SLAVERY IN BUCKS COUNTY. From the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., 1876 and 1905 editions. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Donna Bluemink. [email protected]
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: From Davis, History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, "General Augustin Willett, of Bensalem, had a favorite old slave who bore the high-sounding name of Priam, who was with his master in the Revolutionary army, and accompanied him in all his goings. The general's estate was charged with his support."

 

1. Slave Name: Lid
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Peg
   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:

    

3. Slave Name: Bell
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: Jude
   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:

    

5. Slave Name: Stace
   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:

    

6. Slave Name: Dine
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Plymouth
   Sex: Male
   Age: "27 years of age"
   Date of Birth: circa 1735
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negro man"
   Source: Pennsylvania Gazette, 26 February 1756
   Date of Record:
   Notes: Plymouth escaped from Williams in the winter of 1755-1756. Text of advertisement placed by Williams to recover him:

   Went away from the subscriber, at Milford mills, on Neshaminey-creek, in Bucks county, a Negroe man, named Plymouth, 27 years of age, five feet nine inches high, square shoulder'd, smooth face, speaks good English, plays on the fiddle, and is well acquainted in Philadelphia; Had on, a hat whitened with meal, Germantown cap, a cloth colour'd frize waistcoat, whitened with meal, a linsey under waistcoat, with red, white and green stripes, leather breeches, grey yarn stockings, and peeked toed shoes. Whoever will take the said negroe to the Workhouse, or bring him to his master, shall have Forty Shillings reward, paid by the master of the workhouse, or STEPHEN WILLIAMS.

    

2. Slave Name: Name not given in ad
   Sex: Male
   Age: Not stated, described as a "boy"
   Date of Birth: Not known
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negro Boy"
   Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, May 06, 1756
   Date of Record: May 06, 1756
   Notes: Offered for sale in May, 1756. Ad notes: "A very likely Negro boy, has had the small pox, this country born."

    

3. Slave Names: Not stated (seven slaves in all)
   Sex: Male/Female
   Ages: Various
   Dates of Birth: Not stated
   Status: Slaves for life
   Description: "Negroe Man." "Negroe Woman," "Negroe Boy"
   Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, September 28, 1758
   Date of Record: September 28, 1758
   Notes: Offered for sale in 1758 along with the premises of the mill. See the ad, below:

   Millford Mills, Bucks County, September 14, 1758.
   To be SOLD or LETT, for a Term of Years, by the Subscriber, living on the Premises.

   THE Mills, known by the Name of Millford Mills, situated on Neshaminy Creek, in Bucks County, one Mile from Lawrence Growdon, Esq; nineteen Miles by Land from Philadelphia, and seventeen by Water from the Landing, which is two Miles from the said Mills; on which there is a good Storehouse and Wharff, where a Vessel may come with 1000 Bushels of Wheat in her. Also a Piece of Meadow Ground, that generally produces 15 or 20 Tons of the best Hay yearly. Likewise a decked Flat, capable of taking down all the Flour, Stuff, &c. made in the said Mills, and bringing up any Quantity of Wheat, with a careful Negroe Man, that has constantly gone in her; and a Negroe Man, by Trade a Miller, who perfectly understands the Business, and something of a Cooper And Carter. Also another Negroe Man, by Trade a Dry Cooper, and a good Workman. A Negroe Woman, a compleat Cook, can sew, wash, and iron well, and is a compleat Servant in a Family. The Remainder of a Servant's Time, who has done all my Carting Business, and is very careful. And a Negroe Boy or two. The Mills are as well watered as any in the Country. There is a good Dwelling house, Stable, Barracks, Cooper Shop, and every other Necessary to compleat the same, and lies on the high Road, the nearest from Philadelphia to Trenton of any use, and without crossing Neshaminy Ferry, being a convenient Situation for a Merchant, where any Quantity of Pork may be taken in to barrel, or other Tradesmen. For further Particulars, enquire of the Subscriber, living on the Premises.

 

1. Slave Name: Dinah
   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: March 12, 1783
   Notes: Late registration. This slave probably should have been set free.

 

1. Slave Name: West, Samuel
   Sex: Male
   Age: 27
   Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
   Status: Manumitted
   Description: Negro Man
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: December 04, 1806
   Notes: Partial text of manumission papers: (The owner, John Wilson of Buckingham Township, does) "set free from Bondage and at liberty a certain Negroe Man named Sam or Samuel West duly registered a Slave in November 1780 then aged one year."

 

1. Slave Name: Dinah
   Sex: Female
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Prudence
   Sex: Female
   Age: 02 Years and 06 Months
   Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Phoebe
   Sex: Female
   Age: 20
   Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

4. Slave Name: Archibald
   Sex: Male
   Age: 10 Months
   Date of Birth: 1779 or 1780 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: ?
   Sex: ?
   Age: ?
   Date of Birth: ?
   Status:
   Description: Negro
   Source: Falls Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, Bucks County
   Date of Record: July 11, 1764
   Notes: Mentioned in Quaker Monthly Meeting Minutes, Falls Meeting: "7/11/1764 - Reported that James Winder is evasive and unclear as to the Negro he had purchased and he had been concerned in horse racing and at another time quarreling and fighting. [ disowned ]"

 

1. Slave Name: Amanda
   Sex: Female
   Age: 01 Year and 06 Months
   Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Julian
   Sex: Not Determined
   Age: 18
   Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Flora
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Tom
   Sex: Male
   Age: 68
   Date of Birth: 1712 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

2. Slave Name: Toney, or Tony
   Sex: Male
   Age: 31
   Date of Birth: 1749 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life; Manumitted 1793
   Description: Negro Man
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: Manumitted by Henry Wynkoop in December, 1793 (Manumission papers of Henry Wynkoop of Bucks County). A partial text of Henry Wynkoop's manumission papers reads: "Know all then by these presents that I Henry Wynkoop of Northampton Township in the County of Bucks Esquire for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving and of my own motion without any pecuniary consideration have manumitted and set free my Negro Woman Slave named and registered by the Name of Phebe, also my Negro Man named and Registered by the Name of Tony (both above the age of twenty eight years) and also my Negro Man Tom registered by the Same Name and under the age of Twenty eight years and by these presents do manumit and set free the said three Slaves, Phebe Tony and Tom for ever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this sixteenth day of December in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety three." (Printed by permission of, and with thanks to, "The Wynkoop Family Research Library.") )

    

3. Slave Name: Belinda
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: Peter
   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:

    

5. Slave Name: Phoebe
   Sex: Female
   Age: 17
   Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life; Manumitted 1793
   Description: Negro
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: Manumitted by Henry Wynkoop in December, 1793 (Manumission papers of Henry Wynkoop of Bucks County). See a partial text of the manumission papers under slave "Toney," above.

    

6. Slave Name: Issabel
   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:

    

7. Slave Name: Tom
   Sex: Male
   Age: 14
   Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life; Manumitted in 1793
   Description: Negro
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: Manumitted by Henry Wynkoop in December, 1793 (Manumission papers of Henry Wynkoop of Bucks County). See a partial text of the manumission papers under slave "Toney," above.

    

8. Slave Name: Oliver
   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:

    

9. Slave Name: Mary
   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:

    

10. Slave Name: Jeffery
    Sex: Male
    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:

 

1. Slave Name: Rosetta
   Sex: Female
   Age: -
   Date of Birth: 1796-October 25
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: January 13, 1797
   Notes:

 

1. Slave Name: Joe
   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:

    

2. Slave Name: Rose
   Sex: Female
   Age: 02
   Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Jem
   Sex: Male
   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:

    

4. Slave Name: Fann
   Sex: Female
   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:

 

1. Slave Name: Caesar
   Sex: Male
   Age: 02
   Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
   Status: Slave to age 30
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to be free at 30"

    

2. Slave Name: Rose
   Sex: Female
   Age: 45
   Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes:

    

3. Slave Name: Dinah
   Sex: Female
   Age: 23
   Date of Birth: 1757 (calculated)
   Status: slave to age 25
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to be free at 25."

    

4. Slave Name: Philip
   Sex: Male
   Age: 21
   Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
   Status: Slave to age 30
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to be free at 30"

    

5. Slave Name: Charles
   Sex: Male
   Age: 19
   Date of Birth: 1761 (calculated)
   Status: Slave to age 30
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to be free at 30"

    

6. Slave Name: Dick
   Sex: Male
   Age: 14
   Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
   Status: Slave to age 30
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to be free at 30"

    

7. Slave Name: Silvia
   Sex: Female
   Age: 09
   Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
   Status: Slave to age 25
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to be free at 25"

    

8. Slave Name: Andrew
   Sex: Male
   Age: 05
   Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
   Status: Slave to age 30
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to be free at 30"

    

9. Slave Name: George
   Sex: Male
   Age: 07
   Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
   Status: Slave to age 30
   Description:
   Source: Bucks County Prothonotary Records; Register of Slaves
   Date of Record: 1780
   Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to be free at 30"

 

1. Slave Name: Daniel Cuffy
   Sex: Male
   Age: "about fifty five years"
   Date of Birth: circa 1722
   Status: Slave for life, apparently manumitted at age 55
   Description: "Negroe Man"
   Source: Manumission document, recorded in the (Lower Makefield) Quarterly Meeting book, page 12, 28 January, 1777. Document came up for public auction on eBay in February 2005.
   Date of Record: 28 January, 1777.
   Notes: Partial text of document: "I Sarah Yeardley, Widow, of the Township of Lower Makefield, in Bucks County & Province of Pennsylvania do hereby set free from bondage, my Negroe Man Named Daniel Cuffy, aged about fifty five years, and do, for myself, my executors and administrators, release unto the said Negro Man Called Daniel Cuffy all my right, and all my claim whatsoever as to his person, or to any estate he may acquire, hereby declaring the said Negro Man Named Daniel Cuffy absolutely free, without any interruption from me, or any person claiming under me."