Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Nelson, Robert (Enslaved persons listed: Chloe)
- Nelson, William (Enslaved persons listed: Negro Jack)
- Nicholson, James --Newton Twp. (Enslaved persons listed: Diana, Pegg, Sal)
- Nicholson, James --Mifflin Twp. (Enslaved persons listed: Betsy)
- Noble, James (Enslaved persons listed: George, Ducilla, Jacob, Violet, Prudence, Thursday)
- Orr, John (Enslaved persons listed: Thom White, Thom Black, Nell York)
- Parker, Andrew (Enslaved persons listed: Poll, Hannah)
- Parker, Isaac Brown (Enslaved persons listed: Richard)
- Parker, James (Enslaved persons listed: Ebit, Tom, Charity)
- Parkison, Richard (Enslaved persons listed: Bob)
- Patterson, James (Enslaved persons listed: Eunice)
- Patterson, Capt. William (Enslaved persons listed: Catto)
- Pattison, Charles (Enslaved persons listed: unnamed slave)
- Patton, Elizabeth (Enslaved persons listed: Sally)
- Patton, Matthew (Enslaved persons listed: Sally)
- Pawling, Henry (Enslaved persons listed: Pegg, Dina, Jim, Tom, Tom (2), Sam, Cezar, Cato, Nanci, Prudence, Bob, Bet, Jack, Bella)
- Peebles, William (Enslaved persons listed: Un-named Negro boy)
- Peoples, Robert (Enslaved persons listed: Peg, Tom)
- Peirce, Paul (Enslaved persons listed: Joe, James)
- Pierce, Joseph (Enslaved persons listed: Seneca, Bill, Dick)
- Poe, James (Enslaved persons listed: Sady, Haddy, Fabley, Jacob, Ritter, Nan, Mackey, Joe)
- Pollock, James (Enslaved persons listed: Dina, Sophia, Romeo)
- Pollock, James -- East Pennsboro (Enslaved persons listed: Venus)
- Poples, Robert (Enslaved persons listed: Jo, Palm, Ruth, Nell, Pegg)
- Postlethwaite, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Frank, Liatt, Patience, Hannah, Polly, Sam, Tom)
- Postlethwaite, Samuel, Jailer (Enslaved persons listed: Jack, Sam)
- Potter, James (Enslaved persons listed: Jack)
- Potts, Hugh H. (Enslaved persons listed: Jack, Samuel)
- Power, William (Enslaved persons listed: Lucy, Patience)
- Ramsey, Mary (Enslaved persons listed: Jacob)
- Raum, John (Enslaved persons listed: Maria, George Watts)
- Reed, Francis (Enslaved persons listed: Ben)
- Reed, James (Enslaved persons listed: Elizabeth, Isaac)
- Reed, John (Enslaved persons listed: Carey, Grant)
- Rees, Jeremiah (Enslaved persons listed: Phillis)
- Reynolds, John (Enslaved persons listed: Dave, Jim, Edmon)
- Rham, Jacob (Enslaved persons listed: Tom)
- Richardson, Edmond (Enslaved persons listed: Bill)
- Rippey, John (Enslaved persons listed: Charles, Gustus)
- Rippey, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Rob, Matt, Ann, Nell)
- Rippey, Samuel Sr. (Enslaved persons listed: Doll, George)
- Rippey, Capt. William (Enslaved persons listed: Flora, Dick, Jem, Beaner, Dina, Tom, Hannah, Mattes, Claressa, Jane, Un-named man)
- Robinson, William (Enslaved persons listed: Lucy)
Enslavement Data
- Slaveholder Name Nelson, Robert
City or Township Fermanaugh Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes Registered in 1780 with Samuel Coran of Fermanaugh Twp.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Chloe
Age: 10
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record September 13, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Nelson, William
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Surname may also be spelled "Nilson."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: ? (adult)
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Cumberland County court Indictments: "Alexander Lindsay & Negro Jack, a slave of William Nelson (Nilson) stole 1 pr. of leather saddle bags, 3 linen shirts, 1 linen stock, 2 pr. of woolen stockings, 1 pr. of shoes & 1 pr. of silver shoe buckles from Nathan Hays (Jan. 12)"
Date of Record January 12, 1782
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #1022.
- Slaveholder Name Nicholson, James
City or Township Newton Township
Occupation
Notes Two Blacks living in the James Nicholson household were listed as members of Big Springs Presbyterian Church: Sal and Pomp. Sal is the mother of Diana, and known to be a slave. Pomp does not appear in any slave records and may be a free Black.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Diana
Age: Infant at time of registration.
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1791-April 15
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Diana's mother was listed in 1791 Registration as "Sal."
Date of Record 1791
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Pegg
Age: Infant at time of registration.
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1794-March 11
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1794
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sal
Age: ?
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: ?
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Mother of Diana. Sal is listed in the 1789 membership records of Big Spring Presbyterian Church, under the household of James Nicholson. Also listed in the same household is Pomp, whose status is not determined.
Date of Record 1789
Source: Alosi, "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810," page 55.
- Slaveholder Name Nicholson, James (2)
City or Township Mifflin Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Betsy
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1807-December 22
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1808
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Noble, James
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: George
Age:
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1826-July 18
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1826 Registration lists George's mother as "negro Patience."
Date of Record 1826
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ducilla
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1813-December 18
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Ducilla's status as a slave is confirmed as late as 1833, by researcher Ruth Hodge of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In an article printed in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Patriot-News, it is noted that Hodge has located a roster listing John Noble as the owner of "a 'mulatto' woman named Ducille." (Matt Miller, "Researcher etches vivid black history," The Patriot-News, Cumberland County 250th Anniversay Supplement,(Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) January 27, 2000. Page 8.)
Date of Record 1813
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jacob
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1811-November 06
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1811
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Violet
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1812-December
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1813
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Prudence
Age:
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1820-April 13
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1820 Registration lists Prudence's mother as "negro Patience."
Date of Record 1820
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Thursday
Age:
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1824-July 29
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1824 Registration lists Thursday's mother as "negro Patience."
Date of Record 1824
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Orr, John
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: White, Thom
Age: 01
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1788-October 09
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Black, Thom
Age: 01
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1788-September 21
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: York, Nell
Age: 04
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1785-July 17
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Parker, Andrew
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Poll
Age: -
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1795-March 14
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1795 Registration lists Poll's mother as "mulatto mother- Beck."
Date of Record 1795
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Age: -
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1793-March 28
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1793 Registration lists Hannah's mother as a Mulatto.
Date of Record 1793
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Parker, Isaac Brown
City or Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Richard
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1795-May 06
Description: Negro
Status: Manumitted at age 16, Indentured to age 28
Notes: It is unclear why Isaac Brown Parker legally manumitted Richard, then drew up a deed of indenture to bind the former slave to serve until his twenty-eighth birthday. Richard would have been bound for that length of time anyway under the Gradual Emancipation Act of 1780. According to the indenture, Parker paid Richard the sum of one dollar at the time of the indenture, and agreed to outfit him with "one Suit of Apparel which shall be new" upon the expiration of the indenture.
The date of birth for Richard should be considered approximate, and may have been fixed upon at the time of the indenture, as he is described in the indenture as "aged about Sixteen years." To read the entire document, click on the hyperlinked source, below.
Date of Record 1811
Source: INDENTURE OF THE NEGROE RICHARD
- Slaveholder Name Parker, James
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ebit
Age: 06
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1783-July 31
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 06
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1783-April 03
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charity
Age: 01
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1788-April 06
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Parkison, Richard
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
Age: 06
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 28, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Slaveholder Name Patterson, Capt. William
City or Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Catto
Age: 60a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1720 (calculated)
Description: Man
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name Patterson, James
City or Township West Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Eunice
Age: 12a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Description: Wench
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name Pattison, Charles
City or Township Carlisle Borough
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not reported
Age: Age not known
Sex: Sex not known
Date of Birth: Prior to 1768
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Pattison was assessed for one "Negro" in Carlisle, in 1768.
Date of Record 1768
Source History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Chicago: Warner & Beers & Co. 1886, p. 221.
- Slaveholder Name Patton, Elizabeth
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation Widow
Notes The enslaved person Sally was willed to Elizabeth by her husband Matthew upon his death in 1778.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sally
Age: ?
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: ?
Description: "Negro Wench"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Upon his death in 1778, Matthew Patton of Peter's Township, Cumberland County willed Sally to his wife Elizabeth.
Date of Record January, 1778
Source: Will of Matthew Patton, 1778
- Slaveholder Name Patton, Matthew
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes Born in 1705, died in 1778. Husband of Elizabeth, to whom he willed his Negro slave Sally.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sally
Age: ?
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: ?
Description: "Negro Wench"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Upon his death in 1778, Matthew Patton of Peter's Township, Cumberland County willed Sally to his wife Elizabeth.
Date of Record January, 1778
Source: Will of Matthew Patton, 1778
- Slaveholder Name Pawling, Henry
City or Township Antrim Township (modern Franklin County)
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dina
Age: 18
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Pegg
Age: 15
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jim
Age: 21
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 26
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 28
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
Age: 33
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1747 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cezar
Age: 56
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1724 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Researcher John Alosi, in reading the original handwritten registration, transcribes this slave's name as "Gajar," believing it to be an African name. In that none of Pawling's other slaves had African names, this is unlikely.(Alosi, p.32)
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cato
Age: 32
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nanci
Age: 12
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Prudence
Age: 01
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1779-October (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Age as noted on registration was 10 months.
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
Age: 01
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1779-August (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Age as noted on registration was 12 months.
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bet
Age: 02
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: 04
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bella
Age: 15
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Peebles, William
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation Innkeeper
Notes Kept the Sign of the Black Horse tavern on (modern) West King Street in Carlisle irregularly from 1771-1775. He was appointed to a captaincy in the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment in 1776, but was captured and died that same year. (Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, page 77)
- Enslaved Person's Name: ?
Age: ? "boy"
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: "Negro boy"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Found in inventory of Captain William Peebles, taken 07 March, 1777. Also listed was the time of a servant girl.
Date of Record March 07, 1777
Source: Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, page 77
- Slaveholder Name Peoples, Robert
City or Township Hamilton Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Peg
Age: 23
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1757 (calculated)
Description: Negro Wench
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 27, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: Not recorded
Sex: Male
Date of Birth:
Description: "Negroe Man"
Status: Captured runaway
Notes: Captured and imprisoned in the workhouse in Philadelphia, this person identified himself as an escaped slave belonging to Robert Peoples. Text of jailor's ad:
THERE is now confined in the Work-House of the city and county of Philadelphia, the following persons, on suspicion of being RUN AWAY SERVANTS, --- viz.
TOM, a Negroe Man, says that he belongs to Robert Peoples, in Shippen's town, in Cumberland county.
The owners are desired to come, prove property, pay charges and take them away, otherwise they will be sold for their fees in six weeks after date. CLEMENT SMITH, Keeper of the Work-House.
Jan. 29, 1785.
Date of Record February 2, 1785
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 2, 1785.
- Slaveholder Name Pierce, Joseph
City or Township West Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ben
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1800-May 11
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Seneca
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1801-March 28
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1801
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bill
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1794-December 19
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1795
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dick
Age: -
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1792-August 08
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1792 Registration lists Dick's mother as "Sall."
Date of Record 1792
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Peirce, Paul
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Peirce described his location as "near Carlisle."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Joe
Age: "twenty years old"
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: circa 1759
Description: "Mulatto slave"
Status: Slave for life--escaped
Notes: Joe escaped on July 27, 1779 with James, listed below. Peirce placed the following runaway slave advertisement in Philadelphia newspapers:
FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the 27th of July last, from the subscriber near Carlisle, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, a Mulatto slave named JOE, twenty years old, five feet eight or nine inches high, thick and well set; had on a tow shirt and trowsers, new shoes and buckles, and a wool hat. Also a Negro man named JAMES, thirty years old, five feet ten inches high, slender made; had on a tow shirt and trowsers, old felt hat, and half-worn shoes. Whoever takes up said slaves and secures them in any gaol, so that their master may have them again, shall have the above reward, or Twenty-five Pounds for each, paid by
PAUL PEIRCE.
August 6.
Peirce may have captured Joe, but not James, as he later ran addidtional advertisements seeking only James, and in which he eventually upped the reward to 100 Pounds and added as a contact "RICHARD MOORE, in Third street, next door to the Bunch of Grapes tavern." The additinal ads were in February and April 1780.
Date of Record 06 August 1779
Source: Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser, 21 August 1779.
- Enslaved Person's Name: James
Age: 30-35 (Peirce initially gave James' age as 30, then changed it to 35)
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: between 1745 and 1750
Description: "Negroe Man"
Status: Slave for life--Runaway
Notes: James escaped from Peirce on 27 July 1779 in company with Joe, listed above. Peirce placed an advertisement for both in August 1779. See Joe, above, for that ad. In February, Peirce advertised for only James, perhaps suggesting he had recaptured Joe. Text of February follow up runaway slave advertisement for James:
FIFTY POUNDS Reward.
RAN away, the 27th of July last, from the subscriber, in Cumberland county, near Carlisle, a Negroe Man, named JAMES, 35 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, slender made, of a spare visage, and one of his legs a little thicker about the small than the other. Had on, when he went away, tow shirt and trowsers, old felt hat, and half worn shoes. Whoever takes up said slave, and secures him in any goal, so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by PAUL PEIRCE."
Pierce later ran an additional advertisement in which he upped the reward to 100 Pounds and added as a contact "RICHARD MOORE, in Third street, next door to the Bunch of Grapes tavern." The second ad was dated April 27, 1780.
Date of Record February 23, 1780
Source: Pennsylvania Gazette, February 23, 1780.
- Slaveholder Name Poe, James
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sady
Age: 15a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Haddy
Age: 17
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1763-March
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Fabley
Age: .5
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1780-May
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jacob
Age: 05a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1775-January
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ritter
Age: 20a
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nan
Age: 30a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Mackey
Age: 35a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1735 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Enslaved Person's Name: Joe
Age: 02
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1778-December
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name Pollock, James
City or Township Carlisle Borough
Occupation Tavern Keeper--"Sign of the Indian King" Tavern, West High Street, from 1760-1778, and later kept the Carlisle Hotel, at the southwest corner of High and Pitt Streets, from sometime before 1784 until 1786. (Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, p 30-32.)
Notes Assessed in 1768 for two "Negroes" in Carlisle Borough (History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Chicago: Warner & Beers & Co. 1886, p. 221.)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dina
Age: 08a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1781 (calculated)
Description: Negro Girl
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sophia
Age: 04a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1785 (calculated)
Description: Negro Girl
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Romeo
Age: ? (adult)
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Indicted in Cumberland County court in 1800 as follows: "Negro Romeo the slave of James Pollock, Negro Phill the slave of William Blair and Negro Dick the property of John Carothers, Esq. for riot & mayhem, and knocking out one of Jacob Jacob's foreteeth, as he was going to his lodging down Hanover St. at night. (March 17) Tent: William Blair (Mar 17)."
Date of Record March 17, 1800
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #2163.
- Slaveholder Name Pollock, James
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes Husband of Ann Pollock, brother of Oliver Pollock.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Venus
Age: Not recorded, but described as a "wench"
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: Prior to 1790
Description: "Negro wench"
Status: To serve up to ten additional years from proving of will
Notes: Willed by James Pollock to his wife, Ann. Pollock specified "The negro wench, Venus, not to serve more than ten years..."
Date of Record Will dated 24 September 1790
Source: William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries, XIII, First and Second Series, Volume II, page 73.
- Slaveholder Name Pollock, Oliver
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Mentioned as the previous owner of Aaron Dorset, a runaway slave from a Lancaster owner.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cloe
Age: 18
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1782 -- December
Description: Negro Girl
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Originally registered by William Kelso in Carlisle in 1789, Cloe passed to Kelso's daughter Rebeckah sometime after his death. Rebeckah transferred Cloe to John Harland, a Philadelphia merchant, in 1794, who sold the girl to Peter Gerandan for 118 Spanish milled dollars. Gerandan sold Cloe two months later to L. Crousillat, who sold her in 1795 to Oliver Pollack, all for the same 118 Spanish milled dollars. Pollack sold the girl in November, 1796, to Andrew Carothers for sixty pounds.
Date of Record November 21, 1796 (sale to Andrew Carothers)
Source: Slave transfer from Rebeckah Kelso to John Harland
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dorset, Aaron
Age: 40a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Bought from Benjamin Chew, in Dover, Delaware. Subsequently sold to James Crawford in Lampeter, Lancaster County. Dorset ran away from Crawford in May, 1799. See the runaway ad under "Crawford, James" in the Lancaster County section.
Date of Record May 11, 1799
Source: Lancaster Journal
- Slaveholder Name Poples, Robert
City or Township Shippensburg
Occupation
Notes Surname may also be "Peebly."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jo
Age: .1
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1788-August 14
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Palm
Age: 08
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1780-May 19
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: This slave may have legally been registered as a slave for life, from the birthdate.
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ruth
Age: 06
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1782-July 25
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nell
Age: 04
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1784-September 25
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Pegg
Age: 02
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1786-August 30
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Postlethwaite, Samuel
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes By 1804, the registrations listed Samuel Postlethwaite as "Esquire." See also, Postlethwaite, Samuel, as County Jailer. Born 1736/7 in Lancaster County, son of John Postlethwaite. Married Matilda Rose in 1760, in Lancaster. Died August 24, 1810 "in his 72d year." (Egle's Notes and Queries, Annual Volume 1900, XXXII, p. 172)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Frank
Age: 05
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1784-January 05
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Liatt
Age: 01
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1793-August 10
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1794 Registration lists Liatt's mother as "Doll."
Date of Record 1794
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Patience
Age: -
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1795-June 18
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1795 Registration lists Patience's mother as "Doll-mulatto slave."
Date of Record 1795
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Age: 07
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1782-May 12
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Polly
Age: -
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1798-October 14
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1799
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1801-March 03
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1801 Registration lists Sam's mother as "Doll-mulatto."
Date of Record 1801
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1804-June 29
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1804
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Postlethwaite, Samuel, as County Jailer
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation County Jailer
Notes As County Jailer, Postlethwaite had the responsibility to hold and even sell Blacks who where jailed upon suspicion of being runaways.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: ? (man)
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Negro man
Status: Runaway--captured
Notes: "Says he belongs to John Mitchel, as advertised in the Newspapers" Text of jailer's ad: "Carlisle, November 15, 1776.
NOW in the goal of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, the following persons, viz. Two NEGROE men, the one calls himself JACK, and says he belongs to John Mitchel, as advertised in the Newspapers; the other says his name is GEORGE, and that he belongs to Samuel Willick, in Jersey, opposite to New Castle. ROBERT WOOD, an Englishman, who confesses he belongs to John Gillis, of Baltimore county, Maryland. MURDOCK RYLEY, servant to Felix Doyle, of the Path Valley. And JAMES PARSONS, servant to Stephen Gill, of Baltimore county, Maryland. Their masters are desired to come, pay their fees, and take them out, or they will be sold for the same in three weeks from this date, by SAMUEL POSTLETHWAITE."
Date of Record November 20, 1776
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette
- Enslaved Person's Name: George
Age: ? (man)
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Negro man
Status: Runaway--captured
Notes: "belongs to Samuel Willick, in Jersey, opposite to New Castle." See text of jailer's ad, above.
Date of Record November 20, 1776
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette
- Slaveholder Name Potter, James
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Potter seems to have lost a slave from the Gap Tavern, Lancaster County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: 26a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1744 (calculated)
Description: "Negroe man"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Jack ran away in 1770 from the Gap Tavern, Lancaster County. His escape must have been made all the more difficult by the handcuffs that he wore. Potter's advertisement for Jack's capture appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette:
FOUR POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away, on the 12th of this instant October, from the subscriber, at the Gap Tavern, in Lancaster county, a NEGROE man, named JACK, about 26 years old, 5 feet 5 inches high, a good looking smart speaking fellow, has a scar above his left eye brow, and had on a pair of handcuffs, a felt hat, a brown double breasted jacket, with hair buttons, and green lining, a pair of good buckskin breeches, woolen hose, blue and red mixed, old shoes, and no shirt. Whoever brings the said slave to the subscriber, in Cumberland county, shall receive the above reward, and if secured in any jail, Twenty Shillings reward, paid by me JAMES POTTER.
Date of Record October 25, 1770
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, October 25, 1770
- Slaveholder Name Potts, Hugh H.
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation
Notes 1807 Registration for Jack places Hugh H. Potts in Carlisle.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1806-September 06
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1807
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Samuel
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1805-September 12
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1806
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Power, William
City or Township Juniata Township (modern Perry County)
Occupation Farmer
Notes This slaveholder is cross-posted on the Perry County pages.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Lucy
Age: Two years and eight months old at Registration
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 02 July 1800
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: No indication given as to why this enslaved child was registered two years late
Date of Record 08 March 1803
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves; 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 06 February 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Patience
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 16 February 1803
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 08 March 1803
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves; 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 06 February 2025.
- Slaveholder Name Ramsey, Mary
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jacob
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1802-November 15
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1803
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Raum, John
City or Township Shippensburg
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Maria
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1818-January 11
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1818
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Watts, George
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1819-August 01
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1819
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Reed, Francis
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ben
Age: ? (adult)
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description: Negro
Status: Undetermined. Referred to as "slave" in document.
Notes: Indicted in 1797 in Cumberland County as follows: "Negro Ben, slave of Francis Reed of Carlisle, assault & battery on Daniel Morris. Test: Thomas Kernan, Michael Quigley (Oct. 23)"
Date of Record October 23, 1797
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #1806.
- Slaveholder Name Reed, James
City or Township Not legible
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Elizabeth
Age: 21
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registered along with an eleven month-old child, probably her son (Isaac).
Date of Record September 7, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Isaac
Age: 01 ("eleven months")
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registered with a woman, possibly his mother (Elizabeth).
Date of Record September 7, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Reed, John
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Carey
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1807-November 24
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1808
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Grant
Age: ?
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ?
Description:
Status: Undetermined
Notes: Grant is listed in the 1789 membership records of Big Spring Presbyterian Church, under the household of John Reed.
Date of Record 1789
Source: Alosi, "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810," pages 54-55.
- Slaveholder Name Rees, Jeremiah
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation Innkeeper
Notes Rees operated an inn in Harrisburg, near the ferry, in 1810. This is documented in the book "A Journey to Ohio in 1810" by Margaret Van Horn Dwight. Dwight wrote of staying at Rees' house in November, 1810, while waiting to cross the Susquehanna to East Pennsboro Township on the way to Ohio. While there, Dwight's party was accused by Rees' Black servant of theft. See the entry for Rees on the Dauphin County page for the account.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phillis
Age: 01
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1792-September 12
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1793 Registration lists Phillis' mother as "Tira." This may be the "black wench," servant of Jeremiah Rees described by a traveller in 1810 (see notes on Rees, above). An account of the incident is on the Dauphin County pages.
Date of Record 1793
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Reynolds, John
City or Township Shippensburg Township
Occupation
Notes Son-in-law of Colonel Benjamin Blythe, Sr. of Southampton Township. John Reynolds married Hannah Blythe. Reynolds died sometime in or before 1792, and Hannah remarried to William Leeper. (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.)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dave
Age: 06
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1782--June
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record March 21, 1789
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jim
Age: 04
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1784--April
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record March 21, 1789
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Enslaved Person's Name: Edmon
Age: 03 Years and 01 Month
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1786--February
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record March 21, 1789
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Slaveholder Name Rham, Jacob
City or Township Shippensburg
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Slave Age
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1800-March 18
Description: Negro Boy
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Richardson, Edmond
City or Township Armagh Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bill
Age: 11a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings
- Slaveholder Name Rippey, Capt. William
City or Township Shippensburg
Occupation
Notes 1780 Registrations appeared on the same sheet as those of Thomas Buchanan, indicating that they may have registered together. (Source 43) Rippey kept the George Washington tavern, located on West King Street at the Branch in Shippensburg, from about 1771-1819. It was built in 1738 by his father Samuel. (Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, page 77-78)
- Enslaved Person's Name: Flora
Age: 02
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1786-March 18
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Flora's mother, as identified in the 1788 registration, was Dinah, who may be the slave registered in 1780 by Rippey at age 10.
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dick
Age: 30
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Description: Negro Slave
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jem
Age: 20a
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto Slave
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Beaner
Age: 25a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto Slave, A Wench
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dina
Age: 10a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Description: Negro Slave
Status: Slave for life
Notes: See the entry above for Flora, a child of the slave Dinah, registered in 1788 by Rippey.
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 11a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto Boy Slave
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Age: 01
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1790-April 26
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: 1791 Registration lists Hannah's mother as "wench Rachel, former property of Samuel Rippey, deceased."
Date of Record 1791
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Mattes
Age: 10a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Description: Negro Boy Slave
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Claressa
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1811-July 10
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Registered in 1811 by Joseph Duncan, Esquire, for William Rippy, Sr., of Shippensburg.
Date of Record 1811
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jane
Slave Age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1807-June 24
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1807
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: ?
Age: ? "man"
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: ? After 1780?
Description: "Negro man"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Found on the inventory of William Rippey, who died on 22 September, 1819. Also listed was the time of a Negro girl. The girl could be any one of several girls already listed here.
Date of Record After 1819
Source: Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, page 78
- Slaveholder Name Rippey, John
City or Township Shippensburg Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charles
Age:
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1809-January 03
Description: Negro
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1809
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Gustus
Age:
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1806-September 10
Description:
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1807
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Rippey, Samuel, Sr.
City or Township Shippensburg
Occupation
Notes Died December 1791 and estate liquidated by executors in April 1794. Estate included one enslaved man, age 23. This slaveholder is cross-listed on the Franklin County pages.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
Age: Adult of childbearing age
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: Not known
Description: "Negro Woman"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Bequeathed by Samuel Rippey Sr. to his wife Rachel. From Rippey's Last Will and Testament:
I give and bequeath to my faithfull and beloved wife Rachel Rippey one hundred pounds bond payable by Robert Peoples and also the sum of Ten pounds yearly and every year during the term of her Widowhood. I also give and bequeath to her my said wife my Negro woman named Rachel during the same term, and afterwards the same Negro woman. I give and bequeath to any one or all of my four Children at the option of her said Mistress, I also give and bequeath to her my said wife my Negro Child named Doll but any child or Children born by the said Negro woman in her said mistresses service shall be the property of her my said wife.
Date of Record 24 November 1790; Will proved 19 December 1791
Source: "Last Will and Testament of Samuel Rippey," 24 November 1790, Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Will Book A-222-224.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Doll
Age: 02
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1786-January 15
Description: "Negro Child" (from description in will of Samuel Rippey)
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Registered in Cumberland County. Bequeathed by Samuel Rippey Sr. to his wife Rachel (see above).
Date of Record 1788 (Regisration, Cumberland County); 24 November 1790 (Will of Samuel Rippey, Sr.)
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves; "Last Will and Testament of Samuel Rippey," 24 November 1790, Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Will Book A-222-224.
- Enslaved Person's Name: George (name obtained from last will and testament of Samuel Rippey)
Age: 23a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Description: "Negro Man"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:: Offered for public sale on April 01, 1794, as part of the estate of Samuel Rippey Senior, deceased. The portion of Rippey's Last Will and Testament pertaining to George reads: "I also order that all my lands Tenements goods and chatles, and also my Negro boy named George, except what is herein after otherwise disposed of, be sold and the land and Tenements conveyed by my Executors as soon as convenient after my decease." His executors placed his estate up for sale in the spring of 1794. Text of advertisement:
"To be Sold, Agreeable to the last Will and Testament of Samuel Rippey, senior, deceased, ABOUT two hundred Acres of good Limestone Land, Patented, adjoining the West end of Shippensburgh, in Franklin County; about the one half of said Tract is cleared and under good fence, a good Orchard, and Stone Dwelling House, and a standing Well of Water; the greatest part of the uncleared Land is Rich Locust Land, intermixed with good Oak and Hickory Timber.--Should it not be Sold before the first day of April next, it will then be exposed to Public Sale, by
WILLIAM RIPPEY, SAMUEL RIPPEY, } Executors.
N.B. Will be Sold on the said first day of April, one healthy Negro Man, about 23 years of age recorded agreeable to law; and a large young Horse fit for any business.
Date of Record January 08, 1794
Source: Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette, January 08, 1794; "Last Will and Testament of Samuel Rippey," 24 November 1790, Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Will Book A-222-224.
- Slaveholder Name Rippey, Samuel
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation Tanner
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rob
Age: 22
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 25, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Enslaved Person's Name: Matt
Age: 09
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 25, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ann
Age: 18
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 25, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nell
Age: 01
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 25, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
- Slaveholder Name Robinson, William
City or Township Wayne Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Lucy
Age: 04a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1785 (calculated)
Description: Negro Girl
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes:
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
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