Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- McAllister Family Notes
- McAllister, Archibald (Enslaved persons listed: Joe)
- McAllister, Andrew (Enslaved persons listed: Ben)
- McAllister, William (Enslaved persons listed: Cesar)
- McBeath, Anne (Enslaved persons listed: Primus)
- McClellan, John (Enslaved persons listed: Lot, Dinah, Lidea, Jane)
- McClintock, Daniel (Enslaved persons listed: Phillis)
- McCormick, Hugh (Enslaved persons listed: Jim, Harry)
- McCormick, James (Enslaved persons listed: Thomas, Jane Ann)
- McCracken, William (Enslaved persons listed: Jonathan, Pheebe)
- McCune, John --Hopewell Twp. (Enslaved persons listed: Charles)
- McCune, John --Southampton Twp. (Enslaved persons listed: Dan, Levi, Phillis)
- McCune, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Isabell, Paddy, Peter, Levi, Paul, Sall, Beach, Bead)
- McDonald, John (Enslaved persons listed: Jack)
- McDonnel, Daniel (Enslaved persons listed: George)
- McDonnell, John (Enslaved persons listed: William)
- McDowell, John (Enslaved persons listed: Poll)
- McDowell, William (Enslaved persons listed: Dinah)
- McElhane, Archibald (Enslaved persons listed: Isaac, Ann)
- McFarlan, James (Enslaved persons listed: Caesar, Dick)
- McFarland, James (Enslaved persons listed: Venes)
- McFarland, Robert (Enslaved persons listed: Tom, Whilis)
- McFarland, Col. William (Enslaved persons listed: Hannah, Beck)
- McFarlane, Rosanna (Enslaved persons listed: George)
- McGibbin, William (Enslaved persons listed: Bob)
- McGufin, James (Enslaved persons listed: Jack, Becks, David, Jance)
- McIntyre, Andrew (Enslaved persons listed: Un-named boy)
- McKeehan, James (Enslaved persons listed: Susan)
- McKenney, Joseph (Enslaved persons listed: Anicle)
- McKenzie, Dorothea (Enslaved persons listed: Dina, Silvey, Nancy, Violet, Dinah, Charlotte, Samuel, James)
- McKibbin, Jeremiah (Enslaved persons listed: Dina, Jane, Sawney, Jem, Dine, Fan)
- McKibbin, James (Enslaved persons listed: two unnamed persons)
- McKinney, David (Enslaved persons listed: Cab)
- McKinney, Joseph (Enslaved persons listed: Jinn)
- McKinney, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Sip)
- McKuhan, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Lacey)
- McMullen, Ester (Enslaved persons listed: un-named female infant, unnamed male infant)
- McPherrin, Rev. Thomas (Enslaved persons listed: Dolly)
- Miller, Elizabeth (Enslaved persons listed: William)
- Miller, John (Enslaved persons listed: James, Un-named Mulatto woman and her small child, Unnamed man, Bob)
- Miller, Matthew (Enslaved persons listed: Charles, Rachel, Bob, Let)
- Miller, Matthew Jr. (Enslaved persons listed: Patience, Thom)
- Miller, Robert (Enslaved persons listed: Violet, Abraham, Toby, Dorby)
- Miller, William (Enslaved persons listed: Thomas, James, George, Harry, one un-named man)
- Montgomery, John (Enslaved persons listed: Dick, Vinia, Vinius, Dinia, Tom, Belinda, Juba, Jean, un-named boy)
- Moore, James, Esquire (Enslaved persons listed: Eliza, James)
- Moore, John --West Pennsboro Twp. (Enslaved persons listed: Tobias, Ann)
- Moore, John --Dickinson Twp. (Enslaved persons listed: Hannah, Fanney, Casey, George, Jane Johnston, Sarah)
- Moore, William, Esquire (Enslaved persons listed: Juda, unnamed female)
- Moore, William, the elder (Enslaved persons listed: Peter, Sambo)
- Morton, Edward (Enslaved persons listed: Abram Logan)
- Murdoch, John (Enslaved persons listed: Dinah)
Enslavement Data
- Slaveholder Name McAllister
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Diarist Thomas P. Cope, of Philadelphia, writes of the 1800 conviction in Carlisle of two brothers named McAllister "the youngest of whom is upwards of 60," for the murder of a Negro man, who was a slave of one of them. (Source Harrison, Philadelphia Merchant: The Diary of Thomas P. Cope, 1800-1851, page 19.) Research in the Cumberland County court records reveals the incident listed under William McAllister.
- Slaveholder Name McAllister, Archibald
City or Township "Pennsborough"
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Joe
Age: 30a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1717 (calculated)
Description: "Negroe man"
Status: Slave for life--Captured Runaway
Notes: Not technically a slaveholder in regard to this person, McAllister captured Joe, a fugitive slave from South Carolina, in 1747 and placed the following advertisement in The Pennsylvania Gazette:
"Taken up by Archibald McAlister, in Lancaster county, Pennsborough township, a Negroe man, who calls himself Joe; says he came from South Carolina; he is of middle stature, and about 30 years of age. The owner, proving his property, and paying charges is desired to come and take him away."
Date of Record November 19, 1747
Source: Accessible Archives--Pennsylvania Gazette, November 19, 1747, ITEM #9132.
- Slaveholder Name McAllister, Andrew
City or Township
Occupation
Notes McAllister (who spelled his name "McCalister") described his location as "near Carlisle."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ben
Age: 26a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
Description: "Negro man"
Status: Slave for life--Runaway
Notes: Ben ran away in June 1778. McAllister placed the following runaway advertisement in the Pennsylvania Gazette:
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY about the middle of June last, from the subscriber near Carlisle, in the state of Pennsylvania, a Negro man named BEN, about 26 years of age, five feet eleven inches high, strong made, not very black; had on a short brown cloth jacket, the back parts light coloured, tow shirt and trowsers, an old pair of shoes, a hunting cap bound with yellow tape, a striped silk handkerchief; he also took with him a remarkable large knife; one of his fore fingers is very small.
He was formerly the property of a certain Hayes, alias Haset or Haslet, about twelve miles from Dover, in Kent county Delaware, to which place it is supposed he is gone. Whoever secures said Negro so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges, from ANDREW M'CALISTER.
Date of Record October 17, 1778
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, October 17, 1778.
- Slaveholder Name McAllister, William
City or Township
Occupation
Notes William McAllister lived in Mifflin County. He was visiting his brother John of Tyrone Township at the time of the death of his slave Cesar. Both men were tried in Cumberland County at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, September Session, 1800, President Judge John Joseph Henry presiding. Testimony at the trial described in detail how Caesar was severely beaten. John and William McAllister were both found guilty and sentenced to five years each in the penitentiary
in Philadelphia. (Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette, 10 September 1800.)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cesar
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life.
Notes: Beaten and whipped to death by William McAllister in 1800. Cumberland County court records have the following account of the beating: "Examination of John McAllister of Tyrone Twp.: That in the forenoon of April 14, his brother William McAllister of Mifflin Co. discovered that someone had cut the strap of his saddle bags and had taken 7 French crowns & $5. He accuses Negro Cesar, his property, who denied it. He took him to an apple mill, fastened a rope about the negro's neck & put him over the sweep of the mill. Then he stripped off his clothes and whipped him and told him to give back the money. . .William McAllister brought the negro back to the house and went to Landisburg. When he came back at dark the negro was dead, and that he had not intended to take his life, but only to get a confession. (April 21)"
Note: this case received newspaper coverage at least as far as Philadelphia, as Philadelphia merchant Thomas Cope commented about it in his diary. (Harrison)
Date of Record April 21, 1800
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #2099.
- Slaveholder Name McBeath, Anne
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation
Notes The 1798 tax assessment for Middleton Township lists Widow McBeath as owning one slave under age 45.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Primus
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1795-June 19
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1795
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McClellan, John
City or Township Peter's Township
Occupation
Notes McClellan's residence became Montgomery Township, Franklin County, after the formation of that county in 1784.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Lot
Age: 31a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1749 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Lot was charged in 1785 with attempted rape.
Text of court order: "Cumberland County, May 1785. John McClellan of Montgomery twp. in Franklin County farmer, tent in £200 On Condition that his Slave Negro Lott personally appear at the next Court of General Quarter Sessions to be held at Chambersburgh for the county of Franklin to answer a Charge of having made an attempt to Commit a Rape on the body of Ann Dixon and not depart." (source 135, page 271)
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Sources: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves | Records of the (Pennsylvania) Supreme Court , page 271
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
Age: 30a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Description: Negro Woman
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Lidea
Age: 04
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1776 (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: Jane
Age: 01
Sex: 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
- Slaveholder Name McClintock, Daniel
City or Township Hamilton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phillis
Age: ? ("wench")
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Negro Wench
Status: Slave for life.
Notes: Cumberland County court Indictments: "Daniel McClintock of Hamilton Twp. to prove his claim of a negro wench named Phillis, now (___?____) by James Lemon. Tent: Alexander McClintock, Humphrey Fullerton (June 30)"
Date of Record June 30, 1781
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #946.
- Slaveholder Name McCormick, Hugh
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jim
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1800-February 18
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Harry
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1807-July 06
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1807
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McCormick, James, Esquire
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Thomas
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1811-April 24
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1811
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jane Ann
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1808-June 14
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1808
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McCracken, William
City or Township Newton Township
Occupation
Notes Member of Big Springs Presbyterian Church
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jonathan
Age: 09a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Jonathan, as part of the William McCracken household, was listed as a member of Big Springs Presbyterian Church in a 1789 listing of that church's membership. (Alosi, page 54)
Date of Record 1780
Sources: Slave Returns Listings | Alosi, "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Pheebe
Age: 14a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name McCune, John
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charles
Age: 07
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1782-December
Description: Negro Male Child
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McCune, John (2)
City or Township Southampton Township
Occupation
Notes Husband of Bathsheba. Died in 1832.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dan
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1794-July 13
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1794
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Levi
Age: 22a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1767 (Calculated)
Description: "negro man"
Status: Slave for life (runaway)
Notes: Ran away in August, 1802. Text of runaway ad:
Thirty Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living near Shippensburgh, in the county of Cumberland, on Saturday evening the 7th instant, a negro man, named LEVI, about thirty-five years of age, five feet ten or eleven inches high, a miller by trade, and inclines to play on the fiddle. Had on and took away with him, one grey broadcloth coat with pewter or lead buttons, one scarlet broadcloth jacket, one clouded or calico do. three pair of trowsers, clouded nankeen, one striped red, and one country tow linnen, one common furr hat, two fine linen shirts, one of them ruffled at the bosom, one muslin shirt, and one pair of calf-skin shoes. He is of a pleasant countenance, has a scar above one of his eyes, and is supposed to have a pass. Whoever takes up the said negro man, and secures him in any jail in the United States, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable charges if brought home. JOHN M'CUNE.
Southampton township, Cumberland county, August 9, 1802.
Date of Record August 14, 1802
Source: Lancaster Journal
- Enslaved Person's Name Phillis
Age: not stated, described as "woman"
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: Not known, described as "woman" in 1832
Description: "black woman"
Status: Not determined
Notes: McCune provided for the disposition of Phillis upon his death as follows:
It is also my will that in case my black woman Phillias should outlive my wife that my three sons John, Robert and Alexander McCune shall provide for her during her lifetime, and to have the use of her labor.
Date of Record 19 January 1832
Source: Will of John McCune, Southampton Township, Cumberland County, 19 January 1832.
- Slaveholder Name McCune, Samuel
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Isabell
Age: 05
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 10, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Paddy
Age: 01.5
Sex: Male (presumed)
Date of Birth: 1778/ April (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Actual age of slave was registered at 18 months.
Date of Record October 10, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Peter
Age: 08
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Description: Male Negro Slave
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 10, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Levi
Age: 17
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
Description: Male Negro Slave
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 10, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Paul
Age: 10
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Description: Male Negro Slave
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 10, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sall
Age: 15
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: October 10, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Beach
Age: 10
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: October 10, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bead
Age: 14
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: October 10, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McDonald, John
City or Township Allen Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: "Aged about 18 years"
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: Circa 1786
Description: "Mulatto lad"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Jack escaped from McDonald on the night of 10 June, 1804, taking a farm dog with him. McDonald placed the following ad in a Harrisburg newspaper:
Ten Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, living in Allen township, Cumberland county, on Sunday night the 10th instant, a mulatto lad, named JACK;
Aged about 18 years, thick set, about 5 feet high, short curling hair, his right leg bends out considerably more than the other. Had on and took away, two new tow shirts, and a pair of trowsers of the same, and old pair ditto linen; an old felt hat, and a sailor's jacket of home made ash color. He also decoyed away a large brindled dog, with his tail and ears cut. The above reward, and reasonable charges will be paid, for securing or bringing home said runaway to the subscriber.
John M'Donald.
June 16, 1804.
Date of Record: 16 June 1804
Source: Oracle of Dauphin and Harrisburgh Advertiser, 16 June 1804.
- Slaveholder Name McDonnel, Daniel
City or Township Newton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: George
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1794-February 27
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1794
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McDonnell, John
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: William
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1798-July 30
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1799
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McDowell, John
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Registered in 1780 with John King, his son-in-law.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Poll
Age: 35
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Description: "Mulatto Wench"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: October 09, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McDowell, William
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
Age: "aged about eight or nine years"
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1771 or 1772 (calculated)
Description: "Negro Wench"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: October 23, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Slaveholder Name McElhane, Archibald
City or Township Shippensburg
Occupation Blacksmith
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Isaac
Age: .25
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1813-November 22
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: February 23, 1814
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ann
Age:
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1815-October 10
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1816
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McFarlan, James
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Member of Big Springs Presbyterian Church
- Enslaved Person's Name: Caesar
Age: ?
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description:
Status: Undetermined
Notes: Caesar is listed in the 1789 membership records of Big Spring Presbyterian Church, under the household of James McFarlan.
Date of Record: 1789
Source: Alosi, "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810," pages 54-55.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dick
Age: ?
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description:
Status: Undetermined
Notes: Dick is listed in the 1789 membership records of Big Spring Presbyterian Church, under the household of James McFarlan.
Date of Record: 1789
Source: Alosi, "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810," pages 54-55.
- Slaveholder Name McFarland, James
City or Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Venes
Age: 11
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Description: Negro Wench
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: October 26, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Slaveholder Name McFarland, Col. William
City or Township Newton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1800-October 03
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Beck
Age: -
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1796-February 07
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1796
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McFarland, Robert
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Registered in 1780 with James Findley of Peter's Township.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 17
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1763 (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: Whilis
Age: 10+
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated) or earlier
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Age was not completely readable in original manuscript. Somewhere between 10 and 19 years old.
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McFarlane, Rosanna
City or Township Newton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: George
Age:
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1808-November 27
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1809
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McGibbin, William
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Son-in-law of John Blair, who died in 1769.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
Age: Not given, but described in will as a "Negro Boy"
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: Not known, but prior to 1769
Description: "Negro boy"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Bob was willed to the son-in-law of John Blair, William McGibbon, according to the will of John Blair. In addition to Bob, an abstract of the will notes the property of John Blair to include a plantation, 200 acres, and "a Negro man and woman to be sold."
Abstract: John Blair (wife Elizabeth)
Cumberland Co. Will, Liber B., pp. 21-3
Written 13 Feb 1769, Proved 24 May 1769
Plantation, 200 a. and Negro man and woman to be sold.
To son-in-law William McGibbin...Negro boy Bob
Date of Record: Will of John Blair, dated 13 February, 1769
Source: Record contributed by Fred Kelso, from Cumberland County Will Abstracts.
- Slaveholder Name McGufin, James
City or Township Newton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1793-February 06
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1793 Registration lists Jack's mother as "Sall."
Date of Record 1793
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Becks
Age: -
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1798-March 31
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1798
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: David
Age:
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1801-November 21
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1801
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jance
Age: -
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1790-April 27
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1790 Registration lists Jance's mother as "negro Sall."
Date of Record 1790
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McIntyre, Andrew
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation Carpenter/joiner; innkeeper
Notes Kept the Sign of the Indian Queen Tavern at the northwest corner of High and East streets in Carlisle (now demolished) from 1754-1761. Died in 1761. His wife Martha ran the tavern for several years after his death. It was considered one of the best taverns in town. (Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County)
- Enslaved Person's Name: ?
Age: ? "boy"
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: "Negro boy"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: From the inventory of Andrew McIntyre, 1761.
Date of Record 1761
Source: Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, page 62
- Slaveholder Name McKeehan, James
City or Township Newville
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Susan
Age: Not stated in ad, but described as a "woman"
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: Not stated
Description: "Negro Woman"
Status: Escaped, self emancipated
Notes: Susan escaped from McKeehan on April 10, 1816. Text of advertisement placed by McKeehan to capture her:
10 Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, living in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, near Newville, on the 10th inst.
A Negro Woman,
named Susan. She is very black, has a sour countenance, is of the middle height, and has large full breasts. She had on and took with her, one dress of checked domestic cotton, one calico do. of a striped yellow ground, a shawl, and sundry other clothing not recollected. --
The above reward & reasonable charges will be given for lodging her in any jail, and giving information to the subscriber.
JAMES M'KEEHAN.
April 16, 1816.
Date of Record 16 April 1816
Source: Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg, PA), 30 April 1816.
- Slaveholder Name McKenney, Joseph
City or Township Hamilton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Anicle
Age: 17
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
Description: Negro Wench
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 27, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Slaveholder Name McKenzie, Dorothea
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation Operated a boarding house on East High Street.
Notes Widow of Richard McKenzie (died March 1776). Carlisle was first listed in registrations in 1802. Prior to that, no location was listed but according to her online biography, it would have also been Carlisle. Daughter of iron magnate Thomas Maybury of Berks and Montgomery counties and Sophia Rutter Maybury.
Source Schaumann, Merri Lou, "Dorothea McKenzie (1737-1805)," Gardner Digital Library, Cumberland County Historical Society, online at https://gardnerlibrary.org/encyclopedia/dorothea-mckenzie-1737-1805, accessed 21 March 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dina
Age: 35
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: circa 1745
Description: "Female Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registered in Carlisle as "Dina, a Female Negro Slave for Life, 35 yrs."
Date of Record: 23 October 1780
Source: Schaumann, Merri Lou, "Dorothea McKenzie (1737-1805)," Gardner Digital Library, Cumberland County Historical Society, online at https://gardnerlibrary.org/encyclopedia/dorothea-mckenzie-1737-1805, accessed 21 March 2025;
- Enslaved Person's Name: Silvey
Age: 12
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: circa 1768
Description: "Female Negro"
Status: Slave for life; manumitted circa 1805 per will of Dorothea McKenzie.
Notes: Registered in Carlisle as "Silvey, a Female Negro Slave for Life, 12 yrs." The will of Dorothea McKenzie, dated May 1805, directed that her enslaved woman Sill be manumitted for her years of service. McKenzie also bequeathed to Sill her bed, bedding and some kitchen implements.
Date of Record: 23 October 1780
Source: Schaumann, Merri Lou, "Dorothea McKenzie (1737-1805)," Gardner Digital Library, Cumberland County Historical Society, online at https://gardnerlibrary.org/encyclopedia/dorothea-mckenzie-1737-1805, accessed 21 March 2025;
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nancy
Age: 2
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: circa 1778
Description: "Female Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registered in Carlisle as "Nancy, a Female Negro Slave for Life, 2 yrs."
Date of Record: 23 October 1780
Source: Schaumann, Merri Lou, "Dorothea McKenzie (1737-1805)," Gardner Digital Library, Cumberland County Historical Society, online at https://gardnerlibrary.org/encyclopedia/dorothea-mckenzie-1737-1805, accessed 21 March 2025;
- Enslaved Person's Name: Violet
Age: 05
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1784-January 09
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
Age:
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1801-December 08
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Upon her death in 1805, Dorothea McKenzie directed that her "Negroes" including Dinah, were to be kept in trust for her niece Rachel Jago.
Date of Record: 1802 (Registration); May 1805 (Will of Dorothea McKenzie)
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves; Schaumann, Merri Lou, "Dorothea McKenzie (1737-1805)," Gardner Digital Library, Cumberland County Historical Society, online at https://gardnerlibrary.org/encyclopedia/dorothea-mckenzie-1737-1805, accessed 21 March 2025;
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charlotte
Age: Not determined
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: Not known
Description: "Negro"
Status: Not determined
Notes: Upon her death in 1805, Dorothea McKenzie directed that her "Negroes" including Charlotte, were to be kept in trust for her niece Rachel Jago.
Date of Record: May 1805
Source: Schaumann, Merri Lou, "Dorothea McKenzie (1737-1805)," Gardner Digital Library, Cumberland County Historical Society, online at https://gardnerlibrary.org/encyclopedia/dorothea-mckenzie-1737-1805, accessed 21 March 2025;
- Enslaved Person's Name: Samuel
Age: 02
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1787-January 02
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: James
Age: Five months old at time of Registration
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 19 November 1803
Description: "Male negro child"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Text of registration:
Dorothea McKenzie of the borough of Carlisle in Cumberland County, Widow keeping a boarding house enters one male negro child called James born the nineteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three.
Dorothea McKenzie
Cumberland County
Before me the subscriber Clerk of the peace in and for Cumberland County, as personally came Dorothea McKenzie and made oath that the above return is just and true.
Dorothea McKenzie, Sworn & Subscribed the 12th day of April anno Domi 1804.
Upon her death in 1805, Dorothea McKenzie directed that her "Negroes" including Jim, were to be kept in trust for her niece Rachel Jago.
Date of Record: 12 April 1804 (Registration); May 1805 (Will of Dorothea McKenzie)
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves; Schaumann, Merri Lou, "Dorothea McKenzie (1737-1805)," Gardner Digital Library, Cumberland County Historical Society, online at https://gardnerlibrary.org/encyclopedia/dorothea-mckenzie-1737-1805, accessed 21 March 2025;
- Slaveholder Name McKibbin, James Westley, Sr.
City or Township Lurgan Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes Born 1730 in Tyrone County, Ireland, married Lettice or Leticia about 1755 in Lurgan Township, died January 30, 1786 in Lurgan Township (by then this was Franklin County). The earliest slaveholding data for James McKibben is from Cumberland County tax records for 1768, showing among other holdings, 1 slave. Tax records for 1779 and 1781 show two "negroes," and 1782 records show one "negro."
His will, executed 24 January, 1786, bequeaths "all his negroes and household furniture" to married daughters Margaret McCarrell and Elizabeth Lettice White. James Westley McKibben's family history is online and well documented at Ancestors of Everett "Skeets" Wilhite.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Not known
Age: Not known
Sex: Not known
Date of Birth: Not known but prior to 1768
Description: "Negroe"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Appears in tax records as early as 1768
Date of Record 1768
Source: Ancestors of Everett "Skeets" Wilhite.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Not known
Age: Not known
Sex: Not known
Date of Birth: Not known but prior to 1779
Description: "Negroe"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Appears in tax records as early as 1779
Date of Record 1779
Source: Ancestors of Everett "Skeets" Wilhite.
- Slaveholder Name McKibbin, Jeremiah
City or Township Newton Township
Occupation
Notes Member of Big Springs Presbyterian Church
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dina
Age: 01
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1792-November 04
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1793 Regsitration lists Dina's mother as "mulatto Fama."
Date of Record 1793
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jane
Age: 01
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1790-February 28
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1791 Registration lists Jane's mother as "wench Fan."
Date of Record 1791
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sawney
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1795-December 26
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1796 Registration lists Sawney's mother as "Fan."
Date of Record 1796
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jem
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1794-June 14
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1794 Registration lists Jem's mother as "Fan."
Date of Record 1794
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dine
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1810-February 05
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1810
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Fan
Age: ? (adult)
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: ?
Description:
Status: Undetermined
Notes: Researcher John Alosi notes that Fan, as part of the Jeremiah McKibben household, is listed as one of six slaves known to be members of the Big Springs Presbyterian Church. The church recorded its membership, which included 23 Blacks, in 1789.
Date of Record 1789
Source: Alosi, "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810," pages 54-55.
- Slaveholder Name McKinney, David
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cab
Age: 05
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1784-August
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McKinney, Joseph
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jinn
Age: 26
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 26, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Slaveholder Name McKinney, Samuel
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sip
Age: 07
Sex: Male (gender presumed)
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes: "aged Seven years last feberuary."
Date of Record October 26, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Slaveholder Name McKuhan, Samuel
City or Township West Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Lacey
Age:
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1816-August 11
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1816
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McMullen, Ester, Deceased
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Registered by George Logue, Esquire, of Carlisle (presumably executor of her estate).
- Enslaved Person's Name: ???
Age: -
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1795-December 28
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1795
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: ???
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1795-December 28
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1795
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name McPherrin, Rev. Thomas
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation Clergyman
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dolly
Age: 45
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes: "Slave for life" is specified in the 1780 registration.
Date of Record October 30, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Slaveholder Name Miller, Elizabeth
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: William
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1801-October 06
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1802
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Miller, John
City or Township West Pennsboro Township
Occupation Innkeeper
Notes Kept the Mount Rock Tavern from the late 1750's through the 1770's, 1794-1800, and 1820-1825. The tavern was located on the Great Road turnpike between Carlisle and Pittsburgh (modern address: 2799 Ritner Highway).
- Enslaved Person's Name: James
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1797-March 28
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1797
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: ???
Age: ? ("man")
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description:
Status: Undetermined
Notes: Un-named slave mentioned in Cumberland County court Indictments as follows: "Deposition of John Miller of Mt. Rock. On March 3 or 4, Thomas Moffit, in company with his brother, came to my house about 3:00 in the evening, as informed by my wife. Thomas Moffit's brother purchased a violin from my negro man, and gave him 2 counterfiet dollars to pay for it. Test: Robert Crawford, Rannel Blair, John Skiles."
Date of Record 1796
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #1778.
- Enslaved Person's Name: ?
Age: ? ("woman")
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: ?
Description: "Mulatto Woman"
Status: Undetermined
Notes: Advertised for sale in "Kline's Carlisle Gazette," 01 May, 1798. Offered for sale with her two year-old child. A partial text reads: "a Mulatto Woman and her small child about 2 years old--the woman has been accustomed to house work, is an excellent cook and well calculated for a public house or private family, and is registered according to law."
Date of Record May 01, 1798
Source: Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, Page 187
- Enslaved Person's Name: ?
Age: 02a
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1796 (calculated)
Description: "small child"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Offered for sale in May, 1798 along with the mother. See previous listing above.
Date of Record May 01, 1798
Source: Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, Page 187
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
Age: 26 or 27
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1748 or 1749 (calculated)
Description: "Negroe man"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Bob was advertised as a runaway from George Moore in Lancaster. Previous owners listed were Daniel Elliot and John Miller of Carlisle. Text of runaway advertisement, placed in the Pennsylvania Gazette:
Lancaster, November 7.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away on the 5th inst. from the subscriber, in the borough of Lancaster, a Negroe man named BOB, about 5 feet 8 inches high, 26 or 27 years of age, a well made stout fellow, this country born. Had on when he went away, a drab coloured coatee, elk skin breeches, Germantown stockings, and good shoes. Whoever secures said Negroe in any goal out of this county, so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges, paid by GEORGE MOORE, Tavern keeper.
***It is supposed he is gone towards Fort Pitt, as his former master Daniel Elliot followed the Indian trade, with whom he hath been frequently there. He served some time with John Miller, near Carlisle.
Date of Record November 15, 1775
Source: Accessible Archives--Pennsylvania Gazette, November 15, 1775; ITEM #58520.
- Slaveholder Name Miller, Matthew
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation
Notes Born 1718. Became a wealthy landowner in Middleton Twp., owning a brick house, a brick kitchen and a brick barn. The separate brick kitchen was a symbol of conspicuous wealth. At the time of his death in 1790 he owned over 600 acres in Middleton Township and an additional 1,000 acres elsewhere. He was usually taxed for 2 or 3 slaves. His son Matthew Jr. received his estate and slaves upon his death. (Van Doren, Cumberland County: An Architectural Survey)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charles
Age: 01
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1788-March
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
Age: 01
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1788-November
Description: Child
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
Age: 03
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1786-April
Description: Child
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Let
Age: 05
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1784-February
Description: Child
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Miller, Matthew Jr.
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation
Notes Upon his father's death in 1790, Matthew Miller Jr. received the substantial estate in Middleton Twp. and Negro slaves, among other property. The 1798 Tax Assessment for Middleton Township lists Matthew Miller with one slave under the age of 45 years. This is possibly the slave Rachel who may have been part of the estate which he inherited from his father. (Van Doren, Cumberland County: An Architectural Survey)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Patience
Age:
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1801-October 09
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1801
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Thom
Age:
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1804-December 20
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1805
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Miller, Robert
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes Assessed for three "Negroes" in 1768 in Carlisle Borough (History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Chicago: Warner & Beers & Co. 1886, p. 221.)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Violet
Age: 40a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Abraham
Age: 04a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Toby
Age: 40a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dorby
Age: 40a
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record: 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name Miller, William
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation Tanner
Notes In 1767, Miller advertised to lease out the James Semple farm in Londonderry Township, Dauphiin County. He included in the lease "two good labouring Negroe Men."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Age: "about 21 or 22 years old"
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: circa 1772 or 1773
Description: "Mulatto man"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:: Offered for sale in June 1794:
To be Sold
A STOUT young Mulatto man, about 21 or 22 years old, a registered salve sold by his present owner for want of having sufficient employment, to keep him from bad company -- he would suit a farmer who would look after him; he can plow, chop and drive a waggon, and may be made a very vaulable servant.
For further particulars apply to Mr. William Miller in Carlisle.
Date of Record:04 June 1794
Source: Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette, 04 June 1794
- Enslaved Person's Name: Thomas
Age:
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1800-February 23
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: James
Age:
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1802-December 15
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record: 1803
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: George
Age: 3 months old at registration
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1797-November 04
Description: "Mulatto Male Child"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Text of registration: "William Miller of the Borough of Carlisle, Tanner, One Mulatto Male Child named George born the fourth day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven. Wm. Miller.
"Cumberland County. Before me the Subscriber deputy Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Cumberland County appeared William Miller of the Borough of Carlisle, Tanner, and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that the above return is just true.--Wm. Miller. Sworn & subscribed Feby 13th 1798--Before David Irvine, Dy Clks."
Date of Record 13 February 1798
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Harry
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1806-April 05
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1806
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Montgomery, John
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes Montgomery was an elder in the Presbyterian Church in Carlisle. From July 3, 1775 to July 22, 1776 he was a Representative from Cumberland County to the State Committee of Safety, in Philadelphia. Following that he was commander of a regiment of the Flying Camp and fought in New York until November 1776, when taken prisoner by the British upon the fall of Fort Washington on Manhattan Island. He was exchanged in 1777.
Other details: Pennsylvania Assembly -- 1781-1782; Representative to U.S. Congress -- 1783; Associate Judge, Cumberland County -- 1794; Helped found Dickinson College.
Tax Records: 1768: Assessed for two "Negroes" in Carlisle Borough (History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Chicago: Warner & Beers & Co. 1886, p. 221.) 1780: House and a lot in Carlisle, misc. other property, 2 Black women, 250 acres in Middleton Township. (Alosi, page 13)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dick
Age: 01a
Sex: 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: Vinia
Age: 08a
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Vinius
Age: 08a
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dinia
Age: 36a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1744 (calculated)
Description: Wench
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 04a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Belinda
Age: 02a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Description: Child
Status: Slave for life
Notes: This child was registered in 1780 along with her mother, Jean, who was 22 years old. The relationship was stated in the registration.
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Juba
Age: 13a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
Description: "Negro boy"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: John Montgomery purchased Juba, a "Negro boy," aged about 9 years, from William Smith on September 27, 1777. Montgomery later sold Juba, age 18, to Joseph Kreps on May 2, 1785. Kreps later obtained a certificate of registration from Cumberland County clerk John Agnew, stating "on the 23rd day of October, 1780, entered office Juba, a Negro slave then supposed to be aged about 13 years in due time agreeable to the law for abolition of slavery.” The certificate, dated November 16, 1789, was in preparation for the sale of Juba, aged about 22 years, to Robert Coleman of Lancaster County, on January 1, 1790. (Coleman Papers, LCHS)
Date of Record Registration: October 23, 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings; Coleman Papers Collection, MG-275, Slaves Folder 2, Inserts 1-4, Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jean
Age: 22a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: She was registered in 1780 along with her child, Belinda, who was 2 years old. This relationship was stated in the registration.
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: ???
Age: ? (Boy)
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: "Negro Boy"
Status: Undetermined
Notes: No name or date of birth is given in the transcript.
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Moore, James, Esquire
City or Township Dickinson Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Eliza
Age:
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1808-October 28
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1809
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: James
Age:
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1811-January 31
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Transcript notes his name may be "Janus."
Date of Record 1811
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Moore, John
City or Township West Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tobias
Age: 02
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1787-October 08
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ann
Age: 04
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1785-November
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Moore, John (2)
City or Township Dickinson Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Age: -
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1797-May 01
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1797
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Fanney
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1808-April 16
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1808
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Casey
Age: 01
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1799-October 01
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: George
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1806-June 16
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1806
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jane Johnston
Age: ? (adult)
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: ?
Description:
Status: Undetermined (given in document as "slave")
Notes: Mentioned in Cumberland County court Indictments as follows: "James Moore, William Kelver, Abraham Gregor, Ann Moore, John Moore & Eleanor his wife, Eleanor Moore the younger, Jane Johnston & negro Sarah, slaves of John Moore, at Dickinson Twp. entered the close and assaulted John Galacher. Test: John White, James McCane (July 1)"
Date of Record July 01, 1795
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #1709.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sarah
Age: ?
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Negro
Status: Undetermined (Given in document as "slave")
Notes: Mentioned in Cumberland County court indictments in an incident from 1795. See the notes to Jane Johnston, above.
Date of Record July 01, 1795
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #1709.
- Slaveholder Name Moore, William, Esquire
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation Judge
Notes Information is from the estate sale of this person, indicating that he was deceased by September 1804. Egle's Notes and Queries (Annual Volume 1900, XXXII, p. 172) reports the death of "Moore, Wm. esq., one of the Associate Judges of Cumberland county, d. at Carlisle, Friday, August 31, 1804."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Juda
Age: "about 30 years of age"
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: circa 1765
Description: "Mulatto Wench"
Status: Slave for life; self-emancipated in January 1795.
Notes: Juda escaped from Moore on January 17, 1795. After nearly three weeks, perhaps waiting for her to return voluntarily or be found locally, he placed the following ad in a Philadelphia newspaper to recover her:
Eight Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the Subscriber, living near Carlisle, in Cumberland County, on the 17th instant,
A MULATTO WENCH,
Named JUDA, about 30 years of age, tall and stout made, had on and took with her one calico gown, one shortgown of striped linsey, one shortgown and petticoat of red and white striped cotton, two pair of shoes one pair with high heels, and a large bundle of other cloaths not known. Whoever takes up said Wench and secures her in any jail so that her Master gets her again, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges if brought home, by
Willian Moore.
Feb. 6.
Date of Record 06 February 1795
Source: The North American (Philadelphia), 06 February 1795.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Not given in ad
Age: ? (adult)
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: Not known
Description: "Negro Wench"
Status: Undetermined
Notes: Advertised to be sold at public auction as part of the estate of William Moore, Esquire. Text of ad:
TO BE SOLD, at PUBLIC VENDUE,
On Wednesday, the third of October next, at the late dwelling house of William Moore, Esq. Dec'd, in Middleton township, in the county of Cumberland.
A Variety of Household and Kitchen Furniture, the time of a Negro Wench, Horses, Cows, Sheep & Hogs, Farming Utensils, and a number of articles too tedious to mention. The vendue to begin at ten o'clock, & continue from day to day until the whole is sold. Where due attention and reasonable credit will be given by
John Moore, senr., George Wilson, James M'Cormick, John Moore, junr., James Given,} Adm'rs.
Sept. 13.
Date of Record September 13, 1804
Source: Carlisle Herald, September 21, 1804
- Slaveholder Name Moore, William, the elder
City or Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Peter
Age: ? (adult)
Sex: Male
Date of Birth:?
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Mentioned in Cumberland County court Indictments: "William Moore the elder, Gilbert Sewright, William Simons, John Gibson, Alexander Shaw, Joseph Shaw, Samuel Shaw, John Maze, James Beyers, William McGinnis, James Kinkade, John McKee, Barnabus McCartney, Negro Peter & Negro Sambo, the slaves of William Moore for forcible entry at West Pennsborough Twp. in the close of Thomas Grier the elder, containing 1/4 acre of arable land & 133 acres of woodland (which land he had cleared of logs to build a house), and expelled him. Test: Elijah Forsythe, Thomas Lee (March 21)"
Date of Record March 21, 1791
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #1502.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sambo
Age: ? (adult)
Sex: Male
Date of Birth:?
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Mentioned in Cumberland County court Indictments. See the notes to slave "Peter," above.
Date of Record March 21, 1791
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #1502.
- Slaveholder Name Morton, Edward
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Abram Logan
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1794-July 25
Slave Description
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1794 Registration notes: "male child born of negro wench, property of estate of James Morton."
Date of Record 1794
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Murdoch, John
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
Age: 15
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
Slave Description
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record September 22, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
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