Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Johnston, Rev. James (Enslaved persons listed: Tamar)
- Johnston, Thomas (Enslaved persons listed: Dick, Will, Charles)
- Jones, David (Enslaved persons listed: Robert)
- Justine, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Het, Charles, Violet, Carolina)
- Kelso, Rebeckah (Enslaved persons listed: Cloe)
- Kelso, William Jr. (Enslaved persons listed: Cloe, un-named boy, Will)
- Kernan, John Jr. (Enslaved persons listed: James)
- Kilgore, Jesse (Enslaved persons listed: Un-named Negro boy)
- King, John (Enslaved persons listed: Luce, Sue)
- Kinkead, John (Enslaved persons listed: unnamed Negro)
- Lackins, Andrew, heirs of (Enslaved persons listed: Jude, Jem, Jewell)
- Laird, Matthew (Enslaved persons listed: Dave, George)
- Laird, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Rachel, Doll)
- Laird, ? (Enslaved persons listed: Jack Beard)
- Lamb, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Bodkin)
- Laughlin, Alexander (Enslaved persons listed: Jack, Eve)
- Laughlin, John Jr. (Enslaved persons listed: Maria Cogan)
- Laughlin, William (Enslaved persons listed: Joseph)
- Leeper, James (Enslaved persons listed: Jack)
- Leeper, William (Enslaved persons listed: Charlotte, un-named boy, un-named girl)
- Lindsay, David (Enslaved persons listed: Moll)
- Linn, Andrew (Enslaved persons listed: James Diven)
- Linn, Rev. John (Enslaved persons listed: Rachel, Emy, Paddy)
- Lockridge, Abraham (Enslaved persons listed: Hannah, Abraham)
- Long, William (Enslaved persons listed: Sib, Jin, Lid, Violet)
- Loudon, Matthew (Enslaved persons listed: Tyre, Tyra, Sall, Dover)
- Lyon, Col. Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Un-named female, Violet, Frank, Jo, Moses)
- Lyon, John (Enslaved persons listed: Juba)
- Lyon, William (Enslaved persons listed: Nat)
- Macbeth, Alexander (Enslaved persons listed: Bob Thatch)
- Maclay, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Titus)
- Maham, David (Enslaved persons listed: Jim, Codge, Isaac, Nell, Tom, Silvey)
- Mahen, Archibald (Enslaved persons listed: Isabell)
- Mahon, David (Enslaved persons listed: Feeb, Suffia, Dick, Vine, Harry, James)
- Mahon, David Jr. (Enslaved persons listed: John)
- Maxwell, James (Enslaved persons listed: Grace, Dany, George, Joe, Grace (2), Nell, Domfrey, Nickles)
- Maxwell, Patrick (Enslaved persons listed: Jean, Cato, Cloe, Nicolas)
- Maybury, Thomas (Enslaved persons listed: Anthony)
Enslavement Data
- Slaveholder Name Johnston, Rev. James
City or Township Armagh Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tamar
Age: 09a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Description: Negro Girl
Status: Undetermined
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Johnston, Thomas
City or Township Antrim
Occupation
Notes Listed as Thomas Johnson in JATR database (see enslaved person's notes)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dick
Age: 18a (see notes)
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes: The JATR database lists Dick's age as 28.
Date of Record 25 August 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings; Young, Cory James. "A Just and True Return: Pennsylvania’s Surviving County Slave Registries, 1780-1826." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.25971/QS08-YE30. Accessed 31 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Will
Age: 11a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes: The JATR database lists Will's age as 19.
Date of Record 25 August 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings; Young, Cory James. "A Just and True Return: Pennsylvania’s Surviving County Slave Registries, 1780-1826." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.25971/QS08-YE30. Accessed 31 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charles
Age: 02a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes: The JATR database lists Charle's date of birth as February 1779 (18 months old at Registration)
Date of Record 25 August 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings; Young, Cory James. "A Just and True Return: Pennsylvania’s Surviving County Slave Registries, 1780-1826." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.25971/QS08-YE30. Accessed 31 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name Jones, David
City or Township Rye Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Robert
Age:
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1819-October 21
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1819
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Justine, Samuel
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes Transcripts list first name as Lemuel for slaves (record) 2 and 3. Surname spelled "Gustine" in 1805 Registration for Carolina.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Het
Age: 08
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1781-March 07
Description: Black Girl
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charles
Age: 01
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1791-September 29
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1792 Registration lists Charles' mother as "Isabell."
Date of Record 1792
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Violet
Age: -
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1794-May 28
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1794
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Carolina
Age:
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1805-January 30
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1805
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Kelso, Rebeckah
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Daughter of William Kelso. As a minor child, she inherited the slave Cloe upon the death of her father. In 1794 she transferred ownership of Cloe to John Harland of Philadelphia.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cloe
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1782-December
Description: Negro Child
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Registered by William Kelso at Carlisle in 1789, Cloe passed to Kelso's daughter Rebeckah upon his death. In 1794 Rebeckah transferred Cloe to Philadelphia merchant John Harland. The transaction is recorded in the following 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. Michael Simpson was the brother-in-law of William Kelso, and uncle to Rebeckah Kelso. He became her guardian upon the death of her father. 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. All of the above transactions are included on the
document, which functioned as ownership papers for the slave Cloe.
It was under the ownership of Andrew Carothers that Cloe was convicted of murdering two of the Carothers' children in 1801 and hanged in 1802. See the details under "Carothers, Andrew."
Date of Record July 17, 1794
Source: Slave transfer from Rebeckah Kelso to John Harland
- Slaveholder Name Kelso, William
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes William Kelso, Sr. owned property and slaves in both Cumberland and Dauphin Counties. Click here to see William Kelso's information on the Dauphin County pages. Click here to read a biographical sketch of William Kelso, Sr.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cloe
Age: 07
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1782-December
Description: "Negro Child"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Possession of Cloe passed to the minor daughter of William Kelso, Rebeckah. See "Kelso, Rebeckah," for the account of the sale of Cloe in Philadelphia in 1794, and subsequent sales of Cloe.
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Kelso, William Jr.
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes William Kelso, Jr., like his father William Kelso, Sr., owned property and slaves in both Cumberland and Dauphin Counties. Click here to see William Kelso's information on the Dauphin County pages. Click here to read a biographical sketch of William Kelso, Jr.
- Enslaved Person's Name: ???
Age: ? "boy"
Gender: Male
Slave Date of Birth
Description: Negro
Status: Undetermined
Notes: Unnamed boy auctioned off on June 18, 1807 as part of the estate of William Kelso. Text (partial) of advertisement:
"Will be Sold, by postponement, on Thursday, the 18th inst....at the dwelling house of Mr. William Kelso, deceased, in East Pennsboro' township, Cumberland county--the following articles, viz:--. . .
"--LIKEWISE--The time of service of a Negro BOY; and a variety of other articles, too numerous to insert....reasonable credit will be given by ELIZABETH KELSO, Ex'trx, ROBERT HARRIS, Ex'tr. June 9, 1807."
Date of Record June 9, 1807
Source: Dauphin Guardian
- Enslaved Person's Name: Will
Age: 18 years old at Registration (October 02, 1780)
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated from age reported at Registration)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life; possible runaway
Notes: This enslaved person is listed in Cumberland County court records. In 1789 he was indicted for theft: "Negro Will, slave to William Kelso, stole £23.12.9 from John Carver of York Co. Test: George Kruss, John Chambers (May 22)" ("Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania." Merri Lou Scribner Schaumann, item 1368)
A July, 1789 arrest warrent for Will was issued by the state. Text:
"The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the Sheriff of Cumberland County[,] Greetings
We command you that you take Negro Will late of your County[,] slave of William Kelso if he be found in your Bailiwick and him safely keep so that you may have his body before our Justices as well the peace in our said County to keep _____ diverse Felonies tresspass and other misdeeds in our said County perpretrated [sic] to hear and determine assigned _____ _____ Carlisle at our County Court of General Quarter Sessions of the peace there to be held on the last tuesday save one in October next then and there to answer us of a certain Indictment for felony.
And have you then there this Writ,
Witness John Jordan Esquire at Carlisle the twenty fourth Day of July AD 1789.
John Agnew."
(reverse side of writ:) "George Crouse is hereby deputied to Execute the within writ given under my hand and seal the 27th Day of August 1789.
Charles Leeper[,] Sheriff"
(Source: Papers of John Agnew d. 1790; 1781-1789 Miscellaneous, mainly court documents. Manuscript group MG 32-19, archives of the Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.)
In a document dated 27 August, 1789, the same day Sheriff Leeper ordered the arrest of Will, Kelso reported the escape of Will.
Date of Record July 24, 1789
Sources: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780 | "Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania." Merri Lou Scribner Schaumann, item 1368 |
- Slaveholder Name Kernan, John Jr.
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: James
Age:
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1815-March 07
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1815
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Kilgore, Jesse
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Probably of Cumberland County. See notes with the slave record attached to this slaveholder.
- Enslaved Person's Name: ???
Age: ? ("boy")
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Negro
Status: Undetermined
Notes: Son of "Negro Eanus," slave to Robert Clark of Southampton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Ran away from Kilgore about early April, 1800 and took refuge with his father at Clark's house in Southampton Twp. Jesse and William Kilgore came to get him and were threatened by the boy's father, Eanus, who held a gun on the two men. See the description of the event under notes for Eanus, slave of Robert Clark.
Date of Record 1815
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name King, John
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Registered with John McDowell, who was his father-in-law.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Luce
Age: 02
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 09, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sue
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 09, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Kinkead, John
City or Township Carlisle Borough
Occupation
Notes Assessed for one Negro slave in 1768
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not determined
Age: Age not known
Gender: Sex not known
Date of Birth: Prior to 1768
Slave Description "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: From Carlisle Borough Assessments
Date of Record 1768
Source: History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Chicago: Warner & Beers & Co. 1886, p. 221.
- Slaveholder Name Lackins, Andrew, heirs of
City or Township Armagh Township
Occupation
Notes Andrew Lackins was deceased at the time of the 1780 registrations.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jude
Age: 35a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jem
Age: 04a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Gender is specified in registration.
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jewell
Age: 01a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Gender is specified in registration.
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name Laird, ?
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack Beard
Age: ? (adult)
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Mulatto
Status: Undetermined. See notes.
Notes: This person may not be a slave, or even a servant, but is included because his status is questionable.
Indicted in Cumberland County court as follows: "Matthew Laird the younger, Samuel Laird & Mullato Jack of Middleton Twp. for forcible entry onto the property of Samuel Ramsey. Test: William Patterson, Hugh Stewart. (Nov. 10)." (Schaumann, Indictments, Item #1917)
And as follows: "Matthew Laird the younger, Samuel Laird the younger & Jack Beard, for forcible entry on the plantation of Samuel Ramsey. Tent: Matthew Laird Sr. (Feb. 13)." (Schaumann, Indictments, Item #1998)
Date of Record November 10, 1798
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Items #1917 and 1998.
- Slaveholder Name Laird, Matthew
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dave
Age: 12a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: George
Age: 18a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name Laird, Samuel, Esquire
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
Age:
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1802-April 07
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1802
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Doll
Age: 01
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1793-September 06
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1794 Registration lists Doll's mother as "Dina."
Date of Record 1794
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Lamb, Samuel
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bodkin
Age: 30a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 7, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Laughlin, Alexander
City or Township Newton Township
Occupation
Notes Researcher John Alosi notes that the Laughlin household contained 3 slaves and 1 free Black in 1789. Eve, Jack and Hall were listed as members of Big Springs Presbyterian Church. Eve and Jack are known to be slaves. (Alosi, page 55)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: Infant at time of registration.
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1793-September 08
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1793 Registration lists Jack's mother as "Eve." Jack is listed in the 1789 membership records of Big Spring Presbyterian Church, under the household of Alexander Laughlin.
Date of Record 1793
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Eve
Age: ? (adult in 1793)
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: ?
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Mother of Jack. Eve is listed in the 1789 membership records of Big Spring Presbyterian Church, under the household of Alexander Laughlin.
Date of Record 1789
Source: Alosi, "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810," page 55.
- Slaveholder Name Laughlin, John Jr.
City or Township Mifflin Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Maria Cogan
Age:
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1824-December 13
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1824 Registration lists Maria's mother as "negro Rachel."
Date of Record 1824
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Laughlin, William
City or Township West Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Joseph
Age: 01
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1788-November
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Laughlin registered Joseph, the child of a slave, in 1788. Rachel, a Black woman, is listed in the 1789 membership records of Big Spring Presbyterian Church, under the household of William Laughlin, however Laughlin was not taxed for any slaves in 1789. The 1790 census does record one free Black living on Laughlin's farm. If Rachel is the free Black shown in the census, then Joseph was probably not her son. (Source 115)
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Leeper, James
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation
Notes Member of Big Springs Presbyterian Church
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: ?
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description:
Status: Undetermined
Notes: Jack, as part of the household of James Leeper, was a member of Big Springs Presbyterian Church. The church recorded its membership, which included 23 Blacks, in 1789. Researcher John Alosi notes that Jack was one of six known slaves in the membership.
Date of Record 1789
Source: Alosi, "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810," pages 54-55.
- Slaveholder Name: Leeper, William
City or Township: Shippensburg Township
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: Son-in-law of Colonel Benjamin Blythe, Sr. of Southampton Township. Leeper married the widowed daughter of Blythe, Hannah sometime prior to 1801. Leeper is mentioned in the will of Benjamin Blythe, Sr. (Will of Colonel Benjamin Blythe, Sr., Southampton Township, Cumberland County. Will dated October 20, 1801. Cumberland County Will Book G, number 94, pages 244-249. Copy of will provided to the Afrolumens Project by Mrs. C. W. Bristley, Fremont, Ohio.) William Leeper died November 5, 1807 at age 60 on his farm near Shippensburg.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charlotte
Age: 01
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1798-February 21
Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1799
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Age: Age not given in ad, but described as a "boy"
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: Not known
Description "Negro Boy"
Status: Not determined, probably a slave to age 28
Notes: Offered for public auction along with other property in order to settle estate. Full text of public sale notice:
TO BE SOLD,
By Public Vandue,
ON Thursday the 26th of November, instant, at the late dwelling house of William Leeper, of Shippensburgh township, deceased. All his personal estate, consisting of one Negro Boy and Girl, two Waggons, one Cart, ten Horses, one pair of Oxen, and a number of Sheep, Milch and Beef Cattle, Keeping and Fat Hogs, two stills and Vessels, complete for working them, Indian Corn, Wheat and Rye by the bushel, and about 60 Acres of Grain in the Ground, a quantity of Cooper Stuff, together with a great variety of Household and Kitchen Furniture, and many other articles too tedious to mention -- the Sale to begin at 10 o'clock, and continue from day to day until all is sold, due attendance & reasonable credit will be given, by
HANNAH LEEPER, Adm'rx.
JOSEPH ARTHUR, JOHN ARTHUR. Adm'rs;
November 12, 1807.
Date of Record 12 November 1807
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg), 17 November 1807.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Age: Age not given in ad, but described as a "girl"
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: Not known
Description "Negro Girl"
Status: Not determined, probably a slave to age 28
Notes: Offered for public auction along with other property in order to settle estate. See above for full text of public sale notice:.
Date of Record 12 November 1807
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg), 17 November 1807.
- Slaveholder Name Lindsay, David
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation Farmer
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Moll
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 9, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Linn, Andrew
City or Township Toboyne Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: James Diven, a.k.a. Pad or Paddy
Age: 22a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1805-August 15
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Apparently the former property of Rev. Linn, and sold as part of Linn's estate in 1826.
Runaway ad from the Perry Forester:
Six Cents Reward. Ran away from the subscriber, living in Toboyne Township Perry County, on the second of June inst., an indented Mulatto Man, aged about 22 years; who calls himself James Diven, but is better known by the name of Pad. He had on, when he ran off, a brown underjacket, tow check pantaloons, and half-worn roram hat. Whoever takes up said runaway and returns him to the subscriber, shall have the above reward, but no other charges will be allowed. ANDREW LINN.
Toboyne Township, June 22nd, 1826.
Date of Record June 22, 1826
Source: Hain, History of Perry County, Pennsylvania
- Slaveholder Name Linn, Rev. John
City or Township Tyrone Township (Perry County, as of 1820)
Occupation Pastor
Notes: Born in Adams County in 1749. In December 1776 he was licensed by the Presbytery of Donegal and assigned to the congregations in Shermans Valley, where he remained the rest of his life. Trustee of Dickinson College, 1783-1820. Died 30 August, 1820 at 71 years of age. His tombstone notes: "Pastor of this Congregation in union with the upper Church in this valley for 43 years." His wife was Mary Gettys (1753-1823). Both are buried in the Centre Presbyterian Church burial ground, Madison Township, Perry County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
Age: ? (adult in 1795)
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: ? (pre-1780)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Mother of Emy.
Date of Record 1795
Source: Wing, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
- Enslaved Person's Name: Emy
Age: -
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1796-February 07
Description: "Mulatto"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1796 Registration lists Emy's mother as "Rachel." The 1820 census for Perry County, Tyrone Township, lists two "free Blacks" as living with Rev. Linn. One is a female, aged between 14 and 26 years, probably Emy, and the other is a male, aged under 14 years, probably Paddy.
Date of Record 1796
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Paddy
Age: Infant at time of Registration
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1805-August 15
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: The 1820 census for Perry County, Tyrone Township, lists two "free Blacks" as living with Rev. Linn. One is a female, aged between 14 and 26 years, probably Emy, and the other is a male, aged under 14 years, probably Paddy.
Offered for sale in the December 02, 1820 edition of the newspaper Perry Forester, as part of the estate of Rev. Linn. Partial text of ad, as quoted in source 116: "unexpired time of a Mulatti Boy, aged 15 years." The same paper listed him again in 1826: "For Sale, a healthy, stout, mulatto man, aged about 22 years. To be sold as the property of the Rev. John Linn, deceased."
This is apparently the enslaved man who ran away from Andrew Linn on June 02, 1826, shortly after being sold. See the entry under "Linn, Andrew."
Date of Record 1805
Sources: Slave Returns Listings | Wing, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
- Slaveholder Name Lockridge, Abraham
City or Township Carlisle Borough
Occupation Store-Keeper
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: circa 1745
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 30, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Enslaved Person's Name: Abraham
Age: ?
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Negro
Status: Undetermined
Notes: I'm not sure if Abraham Lockridge is the same person as Abraham Lougheridge, mentioned in the following Cumberland County court Indictment: "Negro Abraham, servant of Abraham Lougheridge, stole 20 yds. of homespun linen from David Lindsey. Test: James McCormick (Nov. 5)"
Date of Record November 05, 1797
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #1799.
- Slaveholder Name Long, William
City or Township Gilford Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes Registered in 1780 with John Vance.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sib
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1743 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jin
Age: 35 or 25
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1745 or 1755 (calculated)
Description: Negro Woman
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Age is not completely readable.
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Lid
Age: 6
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1774
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Vilot (Violet)
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1776
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Loudon, Matthew
City or Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tyre
Age:
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1800-August 08
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tyra
Age: 19a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1761 (calculated)
Description: Wench
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sall
Age: 01a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Description: Child
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dover
Age: 24a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
Description: Man
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name Lyon, Col. Samuel
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation: Judge; surveyor
Notes: The 1798 Tax Assessment for Middleton Township lists Samuel Lyon as having two slaves under the age of 45. (Source John R. Miller Collection) Colonel Lyon commanded the 4th Battalion of Cumberland County Militia during the Revolutionary War and was appointed commissioner of purchases for the Revolutionary army for Cumberland County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Age: Age not given in ad, but described as a "young wench." Typically this could be anywhere from early teens to middle 20s.
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: Not known, but prior to 1780
Description: "Young Healthy Negroe Wench"
Status: Slave for life (assumed from her likely year of birth being prior to the 1780 Gradual Abolition law.
Notes: Advertised for sale at the end of a public notice of Lyon's administration of the estate of Alexander Shaw. The wording of the sale notice seems to indicate that this person is the property of Lyon, and not part of Shaw's estate. Text of sale notice: "Jan. 28, 1786. The subscriber. . . has for sale a Young Healthy Negroe Wench, who is registered, and fit to be put to any kitchen business or out work. For terms apply to Col. Ephraim Blaine, in Carlisle or to the subscriber. SAMUEL LYON."
Date of Record 28 January 1786
Source: The Carlisle Gazette and Western Repository of Knowledge, 22 February 1786.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Peter
Age: "about twenty-one years of age"
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: circa 1770
Description: "Negroe man"
Status: Slave for life; escaped November 11, 1791.
Notes: Peter escaped from Colonel Lyon on the night of November 11, 1791. Lyon placed the following ad in local newspapers:
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber living in Middleton Township, Cumberland County, on the night of the 11th inst. a negroe man named PETER, about five feet nine inches high, light made, bow shinned, is about twenty-one years of age, has a blemish on one of his eyes, large flat feet, speaks pretty good English; had on when he went away a blue cloth coattee, white cotton jacket, a pair of half-worn black sattinet breeches, blue yarn stockings, new strong shoes with metal buckles, not fellows, and a coarse tow shirt.
It is supposed that he intends to go to Baltimore or Philadelphia, by the assistance of a counterfeit pass which he is suspected of having, and will endeavor to get on board of a vessel. --
Whoever apprehends and secures said Negroe man, so that his master may get him again, shall have the above reward if taken in any sea-port, or if taken in the County eight dollars, and all reasonable charges paid by
SAMUEL LYON.
November 15, 1791.
In describing Peter's footwear, Lyon notes he was wearing "new strong shoes with metal buckles, not fellows." There seems to be a type of heavy shoe or boot called a fellow boot, but I've been unable to determine if those were used in 1791. Another possibility is that "not fellows" refers to a mismatched pair of shoes, or possibly that the buckles themselves were mismatched. -- editor.
Date of Record 15 November 1791
Source: The Carlisle Gazette and Western Repository of Knowledge, 23 November 1791.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Violet
Age: 01
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1792-December 07
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1793 Registration lists Violet's mother as "Lurina."
Date of Record 1793
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Frank
Age: -
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1795-February 07
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1795
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Moses
Age:
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1800-December 04
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jo
Age:
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1807-July 31
Description: "Mulatto"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1807 Registration lists Jo's mother as "mulatto Bet."
Date of Record 1807
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Lyon, John
City or Township Millford Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Juba
Age: 13
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 30, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Lyon, William
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nat
Age: 30a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
Description: "Negroe man"
Status: Slave for life--Runaway
Notes: Text of runaway advertisement placed by Lyon in the Pennsylvania Gazette:
"RUN away from the subscriber, living in Carlisle, on the 18th of May, a Negroe man, named Nat, about 30 years of age, of a slim make, much addicted to strong drink; is an artful fellow, speaks very good English, rather of a tawney than proper black colour, and about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high: Had on and took with him, an old light coloured coat, a shirt of seven hundred linen, a pair of tow trowsers, a pair of shoes and an old felt hat. Likewise a green sagathy coat and breeches, the coat very good, but the breeches much worn. Whoever takes up and secures said negroe, that his master may get him again, shall have THIRTY DOLLARS reward, paid by
WILLIAM LYON."
Date of Record May 30, 1778
Source: Accessible Archives--Pennsylvania Gazette, May 30, 1778; ITEM #62036.
- Slaveholder Name Macbeth, Alexander
City or Township "Within five miles of Carlisle"
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bob Thatch
Age: "about 25 years old"
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: circa 1771
Description: "Negro Man"
Status: Slave for life; escaped 1796
Notes: Thatch escaped from Macbeth on November 6, 1796. Macbeth placed ads in newspapers in both Cumberland and Franklin counties:
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, yesterday morning, a Negro Man, named BOB THATCH, he is about 25 years old, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, stout and rawboned, of rather a yellowish colour, very broad nose and narrow chin, his wool very long; had on a round about jacket of new brown cloth, a spotted velvet jacket with skirts, a red striped pair or trowsers, a rufled shirt, an old pair of shoes, and a high crowned wool hat; he is slow of speech.
Whoever will apprehend said negro, and secure him in any jail, so that his master can get him again, shall receive the above reward, and reasonable charges if brought home to
ALEXANDER MACBETH,
within five miles of Carlisle.
November 7, 1796.
Date of Record 07 November 1796
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg, PA), 24 November 1796; Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette, 09 November 1796.
- Slaveholder Name Maclay, Samuel
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Titus
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 27, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Slaveholder Name Maham, David
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation
Notes Surname spelling is probably Mahon.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jim
Age: 01a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Codge
Age: 24a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Isaac
Age: 28a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nell
Age: 22a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 22a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Silvey
Age: 25a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name Mahen, Archibald
City or Township Lurgan Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Isabell
Age: 20a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Description: "Negro Girl"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name Mahon, David
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation
Notes See "Maham, David." Probably same person. In his 1797 and 1798 Registrations, David Mahon's township was listed as Shippensburg.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Feeb
Age: 06
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1783-May
Description: "Negro Girl"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Suffia
Age: -
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1798-February 06
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1798
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dick
Age: -
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1796-March 27
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1797 Registration lists Dick's mother as "Nell."
Date of Record 1797
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Vine
Age: 04
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1785-February
Description: "Negro Girl"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Harry
Age:
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1800-June 31
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Transcript of 1800 Registration puts a question mark after this person's date of birth. No explanation is given for it.
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: James
Age: 23a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1783 (Calculated)
Description: "Negro Man"
Status: Runaway
Notes: Text of runaway ad: "Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN-AWAY from the subscriber, living in Shippensburg township, Cumberland county, on the 4th instant, a Negro Man, named JAMES, about 23 years of age, 5 feet 5 inches high, remarkable for the broadness of his face and shoulders, has a large scar on his leg, occasioned by the cut of an axe. Had on when he went away, a wool hat and a pair of old fancy cord pantaloons; changed his coat. He was brought up to farming.
Whoever takes up said run-away and secures him in any jail, so that his master may get him again, shall have the above reward. DAVID MAHON, Senr.
January 4, 1807."
Date of Record January 04, 1807
Source: Lancaster Journal
- Slaveholder Name Mahon, David Jr.
City or Township Shippensburg Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: John
Age:
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1807-November 02
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1808
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Maxwell, James
City or Township Peter's Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Grace
Age: 01
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Description: "Negro Girl"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dany
Age: 02
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Description: "Negro Boy"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: George
Age: 07
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Description: "Negro Boy"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Joe
Age: 05
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Description: "Negro Boy"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Grace
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Description: "Negro Wench"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nell
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Description: "Mollatto Wench"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Domfrey
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
Description: "Negro Lad"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nickles
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Maxwell, Patrick
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Registered in 1780 as "Patty Maxwell."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jean
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Description: "Neagro Wench"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 07, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cato
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1746 (calculated)
Description: "Neagroe Fellow"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 07, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cloe
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Description: "Neagro Girl"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 07, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nicolas
Age: 02
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Description: "Neagro Boy"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 07, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Maybury, Thomas
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation Ironmaster, Carlisle Iron Works
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Anthony
Age: 26a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
Description: Mulattoe
Status: Runaway.
Notes:Text of Advertisement: "Carlisle, Mar 3, 1778. EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD. RUN away from the subscriber living at Carlisle Iron Works, a Mulattoe slave, named Anthony, about 26 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high; had on an old blanket coat with brown stripes; buckskin breeches, white woollen stockings and old shoes. Whoever takes up the said slave, so as his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by THOMAS MAYBURY."
Date of Record May 30, 1778
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette
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