Enslavement in Pennsylvania

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Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette; various dates
Notes:  Bound reprinted copy in the library of Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, PA

Reference Number: 102

Source: "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780." Handwritten copy of the 1780 Slave Register for that county. Not dated. Manuscript collection of the Lancaster County Historical Society; MG-240, "The Slave Records of Lancaster County Collection," Box 1, Folder 2."
Notes: This is an undated, handwritten copy of the original 1780 Slave Registrations, with transcriptions of the original wording used by the slaveholders and the recording clerk. This also contains the same data which appears in William Henry Egle's list of Dauphin County slaveholders for his book HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DAUPHIN (my source 01), and will subsequently replace that source in my research listings as it is more complete and a closer transcription.
This source also includes full transcribed texts of Manumissions through 1821.

Reference Number: 103

Source: "Register of Negroe & Mullatto Slaves Entered in the Clerk's Office in pursuance of the Act 'An Act to give Relief to certain persons taking refuge in this state, with respect to their slaves.' " Handwritten copy of an addendum to the 1780 Slave Register for that county. Not dated. Manuscript collection of the Lancaster County Historical Society; MG-240, "The Slave Records of Lancaster County Collection," Box 1, Folder 2."
Notes: This is a listing of nonresident slaveholders "taking refuge" in the state, so that their slaves are excluded from the laws which govern resident slaveholders. There is only one entry, that of Alexander Reed of North Carolina, who registered his "negroe boy named Sammey."

Reference Number: 104

Source: "Records of St. James Episcopal Church (Anglican) Baptism of Adults" in Wright, F. Edward, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Church Records of the 18th Century, Vol. 3. Family Line Publications, Westminster, Maryland. 1994. Repository: Library/Archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 230 North President Avenue, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 17603; (717) 392-4633.
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Reference Number: 105

Source: Will of Joshua Evans of Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, January 07, 1813. Repository: Lancaster County Courthouse; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Will Book K, Vol. 1, Page 442. Transcription by Terry Bodkin, Richmond, California.
Notes: This transcription has been posted to USGenWeb, and is used here by permission of Terry Bodkin.

Reference Number: 106

Source: Will of William Steele, 1822, Drumore Township, Lancaster County. Repository: Lancaster County Archives, Will Book N Volume 1 page 188.
Notes: Submitted to USGenWeb by the Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, P.O. Box 33, Quarryville, PA, 17566. Typed by Marie Malark. Used here by permission of the SLCHS.

Reference Number: 107

Source: Society of Friends Records. Sagsbury Monthly Meeting, Lancaster County. Pennsylvania Church Records, Vol 3, Lancaster Co, Sagsbury Monthly Meeting. (Extract) Contributed to Afrigeneas archives. by researcher Jo Garzelloni.
Notes: Extracted text: page 540-
21/1/1767. "Samuel Reed is accused of committing adultery with his wife's sister and now is removed from within the verge of this meeting. To prepare memorial for Margaret Miller and Mary Moore. John Kirk hath disposed of a Negro woman as a slave. Joseph Mooney returns certificate to Wilmington Monthly Meeting and requests one to Kennet Monthly Meeting."

page 633-
21/8/1776. "John Clemson Senr. releases a Negro from slavery. James Webb, Jr., acknowledges buying and selling slaves and requests to be re-instated in the Society. Benjamin Leonard hath gone to North Carolina without paying regard to Friends regarding his case." (end of extract)

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Reference Number: 108

Source: Registration of Negro child Jesse, son of Negro slave Jude, May 22, 1798. Handwritten document. Lancaster County Historical Society, Document Collection: Case 1, Folder 17.
Notes: This record is not on the microfilm, source number 67, which contains records only until 1793.
Full text of this record: "In Pursuance of an Act of Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania I Susanna Edwards of the Borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster Widow Do hereby enter and return that Jesse a Negroe Male Child the Son of Negroe Jude a female Slave was born on the First Day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand and seven hundred & ninety Eight, and that his said Mother Jude was duly entered and registered in Lancaster County as a Slave pursuant to the Act 'for the gradual abolition of Slavery' and that the aforesaid Negroe Child Jesse is my Property and liable to serve untill he shall attain to the Age of Twenty Eight Years. Witness my Hand the Twenty second Day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred and ninety Eight. Susanna Edwards. To John Hubley Esquire Clk of the Peace for Lancaster County.
Susanna Edwards was duly affirmed to the Truth fo the above Entery & Return the 22. Day of May 1798} John Hubley Clerk of the Peace Lan County--"

Reference Number: 109

Source: "Sidelights on Slavery," Mrs. Mary N. Robinson. Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, May 5, 1911, in Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. XV (1911), No. 15, p. 135. Repository: Library and Archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Notes: This paper makes reference to earlier papers, notably one by H. Frank Eshelman in Volume XIII, No. 10, which gives the earliest existing tax list for the borough of Lancaster (1754), on which the ownerships of seven slaves are recorded.

Reference Number: 110

Source: "Lancaster County's Relation to Slavery," Miss Martha B. Clark. Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, February 3, 1911, in Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. XV (1911), No. 15, p. 43. Repository: Library and Archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society.
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Reference Number: 111

Source: Lancaster County Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. 22; Hunter Rineer, editor. Lancaster County Historical Society, 1985. Number 449.
Notes: A map of the approximate location of this cemetery is included.

Reference Number: 112

Source: Bill of Sale; William Porter to Nicholas Boyd. Dated 11 August 1800. Documents Case 1, Folder 15, Item 5. Lancaster County Historical Society.
Notes: Transfers ownership of the Negro man Abraham, a brown mare, and various household items, to Nicholas Boyd for 150 pounds in gold or silver coin.

Reference Number: 113

Source: Bill of Sale; William Porter to Andrew Porter. Dated 26 July 1785. Documents Case 1, Folder 13, Item 8. Lancaster County Historical Society.
Notes: Full text of Exemplification, William Porter to Andrew Porter:

"Know all Men by these Presents that I Wm. Porter of the Township of Little Britain County of Lancaster & State of Pennsylvania for and in Consideration of the sum of four hundred & twenty pounds Lawfull Money of the State aforesaid to me in hand paid by Andrew Porter of the Township County & State aforesaid at or before the Sealing and Delivery of these presents the Receipt whereof I the said Wm. Porter do hereby acknowledge Have granted bargained and sold and by these presents Doth grant bargain and sell to the sd. Andrew Porter his heir Executors Administrators or Assigns (Viz.) All my Movable Astate, that is to say one Negroe Man named Abner aged thirty four years one do. named Abbe aged twenty years one do. named Senaca aged fourteen years one Negroe Woman named Fanny aged twenty nine years one Negroe Girl named Reach aged eight years one Negroe Girl named Dark aged five years, one Negroe Woman named Jean aged twenty one years one Negroe Boy named Ned aged five years and also one Negroe Girl named Peg aged two years also one Negroe Boy named Benn aged four years and one Negroe Woman named Else aged twenty years and the said Els. Child caled Sam, also one brown Gelding aged eight years, also two Mares & one Colt and Seventeen head of horned Cattle, thirty six Sheep, forty hogs, Together with all my household furniture and farming Utentials. . ."
[Signed William Porter, 26 July 1785.]
"N.B. One Negroe named Cyrus aged eighteen years which was neglected to be mentioned in the within Bill of Sale, but noted here before Signing and delivering--"

Reference Number: 114

Source: Arbitration document concerning the estate of Alexander Scot, deceased, of Hempfield Township, dated September 05, 1792. Lancaster County Historical Society, Document Collection, Case 1, Folder 17.
Notes: Partial text of document: "Whereas there are several Accounts depending and divers Controversies and Disputes have Lately arisen on account thereof between the Executors of the last Will and Testament of Alexander Scot late of Hempfield Township in the County of Lancaster deceased and Doctor Lacky Murray of the Borough of Lancaster, all which Controversies and Disputes are chiefly touching and concerning the Cure of a certain Negroe called Hope late the property of the said Alexander Scot deceased & of distilling and selling of whiskey. . ."

Reference Number: 115

Source: "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810." John Alosi. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Shippensburg University, December 09, 1994. Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society.
Notes: Historical society library call letters: C,H, ALO.

Reference Number: 116

Source: History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Rev. Conway P. Wing. James D. Scott, Co., Philadelphia, 1879; Repr. 1982 by the Cumberland County Historical Society and Hamilton Library Association, Carlisle, PA. Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society. Repository: Dauphin County Library System, Main Branch, Colonial Park, Harrisburg, PA.
Notes: The story of Chloe, the slave who was hanged for murdering two children in her charge, is on page 116.

Reference Number: 117

Source: 1800 Federal Census, Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: pages 243-249.
Notes: The 1800 Federal Census does not provide any names other than head of the household.

Reference Number: 118

Source: History of Perry County, Pennsylvania. H. H. Hain. Hain-Moore Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 1922. Repository: Dauphin County Library System, Main Branch, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Notes: Pages 534-539 deal with the history of slaveholding in the county.

Reference Number: 119

Source: "A RECORD of the returns made in writing and delivered to me. . ." Typed transcript of of the Lancaster County clerk's records for the registration of children of slaves, 1788-1831. Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Library call letters L.C.326.9; R294.
Notes: The full title of this record is "A RECORD of the returns made in writing and delivered to me as clerk of the Peace for the County of Lancaster by the possessors of Negro or Mulatto children born after the 1st day of March Anno Domini 1780, verified on the oath or affirmation of the party making such returns, agreeably to an Act of Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania entitled 'An Act to Explain and Amend an Act entitled An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery' " The clerk recording the returns was John Hubley, Clerk of the Peace for Lancaster County.

This entire record is also on Lancaster County Historical Society microfilm number 206.

This record documents many of the returns which are reproduced in other places, particularly my source number 67, "Returns of Negro and Mulatto Children Born After the Year 1780; June 7, 1788-November 13, 1793." It records slave returns made beyond the end of that source, and it also includes additional returns which are not in that source.

The original returns generally include more information than is recorded in the clerk's records, but the clerk's records can be considered relatively complete, whereas the collected returns, generally found on microfilm, are not a complete collection. Numerous returns are missing from those microfilmed collections, which makes the original clerk's record of those returns valuable not only to cross-check facts, names and dates, but also to record those returns which are missing. When both sources are combined, it is possible to compile a relatively complete record of the slaves in Lancaster County during this period.

This source does have numerous typographical errors, though, and the transcriptionist may have changed the spelling of some names.

Reference Number: 120

Source: Egle, William Henry. Notes and Queries, Third Series, Volume I. Harrisburg Publishing Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 1895.
Notes: Egle seldom gave the source of his information, therefore information from this source should be considered second-hand at best. Transcription errors are not uncommon. Repository: Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 121

Source: Lancaster Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser. January 01, 1800 - March 17, 1802. Microfilm. Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Reference Number: 122

Source: A Journey to Ohio in 1810. Margaret Van Horn Dwight. Yale University Press, New Haven. 1914. Repository: Private collection, George F. Nagle.
Notes: Pages 25-28 deal with the incident recounted under the listing for Jeremiah Rees, in Dauphin County.

Reference Number: 123

Source: Slave transfer from Rebeckah Kelso to John Harland, dated 17 July 1794, Philadelphia. Original document in the archives of the Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Box 9, Folder 15.
Notes: Text of document: "By virtue of a Power of Attorney from Michael Simpson of York county, Guardian to Rebeckah Kelso, a Minor Daughter to William Kelso late of Cumberland County, Deceased, And for full (unreadable--two words) of Mr. John Harland Merchant of this city, I do hereby Assign & Make over unto the said John Harland, his Heirs & Assigns, the Residue of the time of Servitude of a Negro Girl named Cloe being about sixteen years & five months, late the property of Rebeckah Kelso aforesaid--whose servitude will expire on the Fifteenth day of December which shall come & be in the year of our Lord One thousand seven [sic] Hundred & Ten, being at that time Twenty eight years of age, Having been Registered in Carlisle according to Law. Her Respective master finding her in Sufficient Clothing, Diet & other (unreadable) during the time of her Servitude." The document was signed by John McGodfrey, Attorney for Michael Simpson, and dated Philadelphia, 17 July 1794.
Additional wording on the document chronicles the later sale of Cloe as follows:
11 August 1794--John Harland sells Cloe to Peter Gerandan for 118 Spanish milled dollars.
25 October 1794--Peter Gerandan sells Cloe to L. Crousillat for 118 Spanish milled dollars.
06 March, 1795--L. Crousillat sells Cloe to Oliver Pollack for 118 Spanish milled dollars. Pollack is a resident of Cumberland County, although the transaction is recorded in Philadelphia.
21 November 1796--Oliver Pollack sells Cloe to Andrew Carothers for 60 pounds. The location of this transaction is not recorded on the document.

Reference Number: 124

Source: Receipt for the slave Paco, dated November 05, 1770. Archives of the Cumberland County Historical Society, Box 2 "Robert Whitehill Papers," Folder 9 "Paper of Robert Whitehill, 1735-1813, Miscellaneous Receipts," Document number 1.
Notes: Text of receipt: "Saulsbury November 5 1770[,] Received of Robert Whitehill the Sum of Seventy pounds in full for one Negro Boy Named Pacoh[.] I say recd. by me on my fathers acct. Jacob Gilleylen."

Reference Number: 125

Source: Estate Inventories, Cumberland County, 1750-1850. Microfilmed. Archives of the Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Notes: References to this source will state the microfilm roll number, and the corresponding folio number of the inventory will be found with the notes on the slaveholder.

Reference Number: 126

Source: Lebanon County, Pennsylvania--A History. Edna J. Carmean, Ed. Lebanon County Historical Society, Lebanon, Pennsylvania. 1976.
Notes: Repository: Reference Collection, Dauphin County Library System, Main Branch, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 127

Source: Cornwall Furnace Account Books; Microfilm.
Notes: Repository: Microfilm at the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 128

Source: 1850 Census of the United States--Pennsylvania
Notes: All citations of this source should indicate county and township, city or borough, and page number. Repository: Microfilm at the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 129

Source: Tax Lists, Inhabitants and Slaves, 1800, 1807. Microfilm. Pennsylvania State Archives, RG-47--Records of County Governments; Dauphin County Prothonotary; Old Miscellaneous Files, 1795-1898.
Notes: This appears to duplicate much of the information in the 1800 Septennial Census for Dauphin County (and may have been extracted from that tax enumeration for the Prothonotary's Office), but contains information not found in that source. Many of the slave names in this source are incorrectly spelled. Repository: Microfilm at the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 130

Source: "The Columbia Race Riots," William Frederic Worner. Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, October 6, 1922, in Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. XXVI (1922), No. 8, page 175.
Notes: Repository: Library and Archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 131

Source: Carlisle Gazette, various dates. Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Microfilm.
Notes: Also known as Klines Carlisle Weekly Gazette. Repository: Library and archives of the Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 132

Source: Carlisle Herald, various dates. Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Microfilm.
Notes: Repository: Library and archives of the Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 133

Source: "Kirk." Obituary from a clipping book, circa 1887. Unknown newspaper.
Notes: Repository: Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, P.O. Box 33, Quarryville, PA, 17566.
Typed by Marie Malark.

The obituary was sent to me by Marie Malark of the Southern Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) Historical Society. Her letter, and a transcription of the obituary, follow: "I have been typing news clippings from a book which consists of numerous late 1880 articles someone clipped and pasted to a ledger book. While typing this one I thought it might interest you. Most of the articles are from the Oxford Press of Chester county but have a lot of Lancaster County families in them. I can not be sure of the source of the clipping but assume it is from the above paper:

'KIRK on the 30th of the tenth month, 1887 at the residence of Ellwood M. STUBBS Drumore township, Lancaster county, Dinah KIRK,in the 89th year of her age. she was of one of that remnant of the colored race doomed to service until they attained the age of 28 years. Her mother Jane Kirk, having been born a slave and so remained until 1790, when the law of Pennsylvania providing for the general emancipation of slavery was enacted. The subject of this notice was born at the residence of Vincent and Pricilla Stubbs, little Britain township, now Fulton township, and for three generations has resided in the Stubbs family. for several years past she has been feeble, unable to do much; nevertheless she was kindly cared for until her end. Her remains were interred at Friends burying ground, Penn Hill.'

Reference Number: 134

Source: Harrisburg Republican, various dates. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Microfilm.
Notes: Repository: Microfilm at the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 135

Source: "Records of the Supreme Court. Roll 6 (Eastern District) Courts of Oyer and Terminar and General Goal delivery. Microfilm roll 787.
Notes: Repository: Microfilm at the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 136

Source: Adams County, PA Office of the Prothonotary, Register of Negroes and Mulattoes 1800-1820 (Record of Children Born to Slaves. Volume Includes Acknowledgements of Receipt of the Laws of Pennsylvania, 1834-1850.) (1 Vol.) LR 57; Microfilm Roll #5290.
Notes: Repository: Microfilm at the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Note: Source is an alphabetized ledger book, and the first page, listing all owners with the surname beginning with letter "A," is missing.
The column headings in the book are as follows: "Owners Names; Occupation of Owner; Their Residence; Names of Negroes or Mulattoes; When Born; Sexes; When Entered."
Adams County was formed January 22, 1800 from York County.

Reference Number: 137

Source: "Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851," Typed transcript of original record.
Notes: Repository: Citizen's Library, at Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Digital transcript made by Jan Slater.
Part one of the transcript gives the following subtitle for the original register: "List of negros registered pursuant to the late act of Assembly for redress of certain Grievances in the Counties of Westmoreland and Washington."
Jan Slater's Notes:

"The following is taken from a previously transcribed (date and author unknown) "Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851" found at Citizen's Library, at Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Hopefully this will be of help to someone. I am making every effort to type this exactly as the original transcript - errors and all. [The notations]? are mine where I was unable to read the type from what looks like a very old typewriter that was in need of a good cleaning. xxxs are a part of the original transcript and were typeovers. No guarantee of accuracy - please consult the original record if you find something of interest here."
Jan Slater

Source: Accessible Archives Online Database (www.accessible.com). Pennsylvania Gazette, various dates.
Notes: Reference will include the Accessible Archives item reference number, and date of original source. Accessible Archives may be contacted by telephone (610) 296-7441 or email.

Reference Number: 139

Source: Will of John DeHaven, 1799, Union Township, Berks County.
Notes: Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Joy Heape.

Reference Number: 140

Source: Morton L Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1909. p 964
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Reference Number: 141

Source: Johnson, Richard. Slaves in Berks County before 1850, in Historical Review of Berks County, LXI (4), Fall 1996, pp 159/188.
Notes: Journal published quarterly by the Historical Society of Berks County, 940 Centre Avenue, Reading, Pennsylvania 19601.

Reference Number: 142

Source: Johnson, Richard G. They All Stand Fair. Privately published, 1980.
Notes: Subtitled A Social History of Bethel A.M.E. Church, Reading, PA.

Reference Number: 143

Source: Egle, William Henry. "Record of Slaves And Their Owners Held in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Prior to 1790" in Notes and Queries, Fourth Series, Volume II. Harrisburg Publishing Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 1895, pp. 6-8.
Notes: Egle gives the source of this information as "C. P. Humrich, Esq. of Carlisle [Pennsylvania]." Information from this source should be considered secondhand. Transcription errors are not uncommon. Repository: Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 144

Source: Egle, William Henry. "Contributions to York County Genealogy" in Notes and Queries, Fourth Series, Volume I. Harrisburg Publishing Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 1895, p. 106.
Notes: Egle does not identify the source of this information. Information from this source should be considered secondhand. Transcription errors are not uncommon. Repository: Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Reference Number: 145

Source: Will of James Brown, Chester County, 1715 From online data at the Chester County Genealogy page of the PA GenWeb Project.
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Reference Number: 146

Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington." 1800. Septennial Tax Lists, Microfilm roll #0255, Microfilm Collection. Pennsylvanian State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Notes: While many Septennial Tax lists provide only scant data regarding the number of slaves in each township, some amounting to little more than head counts, Washington County provided owners' names, slave names, sexes and ages and sometimes descriptive data. The county also included children in the counts, whereas most counties did not. This variation gives us a valuable list of all slaves in the county in 1800, and not just the adults. This tax list enumerated 175 slaves, and was dated 15 November 1800.

Reference Number: 147

Source: History of Cross Creek Graveyard, James Simpson, 1894. Online version at the Washington County, Pennsylvania Cemetery Archives, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/cemetery/index.html, referenced August 30, 2002, Maintained by PA USGenWeb (http://www.pagenweb.org/), hosted by RootsWeb.com (https://home.rootsweb.com/).
Notes: The complete title of this book is History of the Graveyard Connected With Cross Creek Presbyterian Church, by James Simpson. Containing also All the Inscriptions on Headstones and Monuments Therein, and, The Names of all known to the Author who are Buried there. Rules and Regulations for the Government and Care of the Yard. and A List of Donors to the Graveyard Fund. 1894  (Enterprise-Call Office, Burgettstown, PA.)  The Cross Creek Presbyterian Church is in Cross Creek Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
This cemetery contains the graves of numerous African Americans, among them William Asbury (c.1799 - 1846), a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.  Also listed is "PHEBA DAVIS, a slave liberated by the Emancipation Act of 1780, died March the 7th, 1849, aged about 100 years."

Reference Number: 148

Source: "Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-1798" 1 Volume. Microfilm #6586 (LR-278), Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Notes: Record book entitled "A Record of Negroe and Mulattoe Slaves for Bedford County."

Reference Number: 149

Source: "Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Children, 1821-25, 1828" 1 Volume. Microfilm #6586 (LR-278), Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Notes: Reference Number: 150