Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Blackstone, James (Enslaved persons listed: Two un-named slaves)
- Boyd, William (Enslaved persons listed: Two un-named slaves, Andrew, Millie, Ben, Prissie, Samuel, Alexander)
- Breading, Nathaniel (Enslaved persons listed: Sam)
- Burns, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Tom, Charity)
- Clare, Thomas (Enslaved persons listed: Richard)
- Cook, Edward (Enslaved persons listed: Jacob, Sarah, Ephraim)
Enslavement Data
- Slaveholder Name: Blackstone, James
City or Township: Tyrone Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: The History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis (1882) notes on page 545:
James Blackstone came hither from the Eastern Shore of Maryland shortly after Col. William Crawford and his comrades found their way into Yohogania County, Virginia, as the region of which Fayette County is a part was then called. Mr Blackstone married before he left Maryland and brought his family and some negroes with him and settled in what is now Tyrone township on the farm recently owned by Ebenezer Moore.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Not known
Sex: Not determined
Age: Not determined, but born prior to 1780.
Date of Birth: Not known, but prior to 1780.
Status: Slave for life
Description: "negro"
Notes: One of "some negroes" brought to Tyrone Township by Blackstone from Maryland.
Date of Record: Township history written in 1882.
Source: History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Not known
Sex: Not determined
Age: Not determined, but born prior to 1780.
Date of Birth: Not known, but prior to 1780.
Status: Slave for life
Description: "negro"
Notes: One of "some negroes" brought to Tyrone Township by Blackstone from Maryland.
Date of Record: Township history written in 1882.
Source: History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Slaveholder Name: Boyd, William
City or Township: Bullskin Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer, Justice of the Peace
Notes: Died in 1812. The History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis (1882) notes on page 488:
WILLIAM BOYD came from Virginia some time about the close of the Revolution, making the journey to his new home on the west border of Bullskin on pack horses. He brought with him several slaves and six negro children were registered as being born to these slaves from 1795 to 1809, namely, Andrew, Millie, Ben, Prissie, Samuel and Alexander, but of their subsequent history nothing can be here said.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Not known
Sex: Female
Age: Not determined, but born prior to 1782.
Date of Birth: Not known, but prior to 1782.
Status: Slave for life
Description: "slave"
Notes: One of "several slaves" brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution.
Date of Record: Township history written in 1882.
Source: History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Not known
Sex: Not determined
Age: Not determined, but born prior to 1782.
Date of Birth: Not known, but prior to 1782.
Status: Slave for life
Description: "slave"
Notes: One of "several slaves" brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution.
Date of Record: Township history written in 1882.
Source: History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Andrew
Sex: Male
Age: Not determined, but born between 1795 and 1809.
Date of Birth: Not known, but after 1795.
Status: Slave to the age of 28 years
Description: "negro child"
Notes: One of six "negro children born to slaves brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution.
Date of Record: Township history written in 1882.
Source: History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Millie
Sex: Female
Age: Not determined, but born between 1795 and 1809.
Date of Birth: Not known, but after 1795.
Status: Slave to the age of 28 years
Description: "negro child"
Notes: One of six "negro children born to slaves brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution.
Date of Record: Township history written in 1882.
Source: History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia,L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ben
Sex: Male
Age: Not determined, but born between 1795 and 1809.
Date of Birth: Not known, but after 1795.
Status: Slave to the age of 28 years
Description: "negro child"
Notes: One of six "negro children born to slaves brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution.
Date of Record: Township history written in 1882.
Source: History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Prissie
Sex: Female
Age: Not determined, but born between 1795 and 1809.
Date of Birth: Not known, but after 1795.
Status: Slave to the age of 28 years
Description: "negro child"
Notes: One of six "negro children born to slaves brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution.
Date of Record: Township history written in 1882.
Source: History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Samuel
Sex: Male
Age: Not determined, but born between 1795 and 1809.
Date of Birth: Not known, but after 1795.
Status: Slave to the age of 28 years
Description: "negro child"
Notes: One of six "negro children born to slaves brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution.
Date of Record: Township history written in 1882.
Source: History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Alexander
Sex: Male
Age: Not determined, but born between 1795 and 1809.
Date of Birth: Not known, but after 1795.
Status: Slave to the age of 28 years
Description: "negro child"
Notes: One of six "negro children born to slaves brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution.
Date of Record: Township history written in 1882.
Source: History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Slaveholder Name: Breading, Nathaniel
City or Township:
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Judge, Businessman
Notes: 1751-1821. Nathaniel Breading was justice of the peace and President Judge in Fayette County. As a businessman, he helped develop trade between western Pennsylvania and New Orleans by sending a flat boat downriver each year loaded with flour and whiskey.
He served as lieutenant in Capt. Joseph Wright's company of the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War and served in the commissary at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78. Breading served on the Supreme Executive Council for Pennsylvania and was a member of the 1790 convention to write the Pennsylvania Constitution. He also was one of two Fayette County representatives at the state convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1787. (Biographical info from Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122062678/nathaniel-breading.)
Sources: History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882; Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Work, Vol. 1, Henry Elliot Shepherd; Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, John Woolf Jordan and James Hadden, eds., 1912.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
Sex: Male
Age: Not stated, described as a "Man"
Date of Birth: Not known.
Status: Jailed suspected runaway slave
Description: "Negro Man"
Notes: Sam was jailed in Pittsburgh in July 1789 as a suspected runaway slave. He told the jailor that he belonged to Nathaniel Breading in Fayette County. Below is the text of the jailor's advertisement:
Pittsburgh, July 17, 1789.
COMMITTED to the jail of Alleghany county, on the 14th instant, a Negro Man, who calls himself SAM, says he belongs to Nathaniel Breading, who live on Delaps creek, in Fayette county. This is therefore to notify his said master, that unless he releases him before the 20th of August next, he will on that day be sold for fees.
ANDREW ROBINSON, Jailer
Date of Record: 17 July 1789
Source: Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, 18 July 1789, page 3.
- Slaveholder Name: Burns, Samuel
City or Township: Washington Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: See pre-1783 enslavement records of Samuel Burns, filed in Westmoreland County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: "about 4 1/2 years old"
Date of Birth: Circa September 1784. Exact birthdate not reported in registration, contrary to law.
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Twin of Charity, below. Transcriber reports name of mother as reported in registration is unreadable.
Date of Record: 11 March 1789
Source: "Birth Records for Negroes and Mulattoes, 1788-1826," Fayette County, Pennnsylvania Prothonotary Records, RG-47 Birth Records for the County Governments, Pennsylania State Archives, transcribed by G.D. Dixon.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charity
Sex: Female
Age: "about 4 1/2 years old"
Date of Birth: Circa September 1784. Exact birthdate not reported in registration, contrary to law.
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Twin of Tom, above. Transcriber reports name of mother as reported in registration is unreadable.
Date of Record: 11 March 1789
Source: "Birth Records for Negroes and Mulattoes, 1788-1826," Fayette County, Pennnsylvania Prothonotary Records, RG-47 Birth Records for the County Governments, Pennsylania State Archives, transcribed by G.D. Dixon.
- Slaveholder Name: Cannon, Daniel
City or Township: Franklin Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: See pre-1783 enslavement records of Samuel Burns, filed in Westmoreland County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tim
Sex: Male
Age: Fifteen months old at registration
Date of Birth: 22 November 1787
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes:
Date of Record: 14 March 1789
Source: "Birth Records for Negroes and Mulattoes, 1788-1826," Fayette County, Pennnsylvania Prothonotary Records, RG-47 Birth Records for the County Governments, Pennsylania State Archives, transcribed by G.D. Dixon.
- Slaveholder Name: Clare, Thomas
City or Township: Springhill Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: Named by the jailed freedom seeker Richard as the enslaver from whom he had escaped in 1793.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Richard
Sex: Male
Age: Not stated, described as a "young man"
Date of Birth: Not known.
Status: Jailed suspected runaway slave
Description: "Young Negro Man"
Notes: Richard was jailed in Greensburg in December 1793 as a suspected runaway slave. He told the jailor that he belonged to Thomas Clare in Fayette County. Below is the text of the jailor's advertisement:
Was committed to the Jail of Westmoreland county, a Negro MAN who callsl himself ABRAHAM, says he ran away from a James Caldwell, of Ohio county. He appears to be upwards of 40 years old, and was once in this jail before, at which time he said he had ran away from near Baltimore.
Also, a young Negro Man who calls himself RICHARD, and says he belongs to Thomas Clare, of Fayette county. The owners are desired to come, pay charges, and take them away.
TIMOTHY BUELL, Jailor.
Greensburgh, Dec. 26, 1793.
Date of Record: 26 December 1793
Source: Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, 18 January 1794.
- Slaveholder Name: Cook, Edward
City or Township:
County: Fayette County
Occupation:
Notes: See pre-1783 enslavement records of Edward Cook, filed in Westmoreland County, including Esther, the mother of the children registered below in Fayette County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jacob
Sex: Male
Age: Four years old at registration
Date of Birth: 01 May 1784
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Son "of Easter, a slave."
Date of Record: 26 March 1789
Source: "Birth Records for Negroes and Mulattoes, 1788-1826," Fayette County, Pennnsylvania Prothonotary Records, RG-47 Birth Records for the County Governments, Pennsylania State Archives, transcribed by G.D. Dixon.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sarah
Sex: Female
Age: Three years old at registration
Date of Birth: 18 November 1785
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Daughter "of Easter, a slave."
Date of Record: 26 March 1789
Source: "Birth Records for Negroes and Mulattoes, 1788-1826," Fayette County, Pennnsylvania Prothonotary Records, RG-47 Birth Records for the County Governments, Pennsylania State Archives, transcribed by G.D. Dixon.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ephraim
Sex: Male
Age: Nearly two years old at registration
Date of Birth: 06 March 1787
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Son "of Easter, a slave."
Date of Record: 26 March 1789
Source: "Birth Records for Negroes and Mulattoes, 1788-1826," Fayette County, Pennnsylvania Prothonotary Records, RG-47 Birth Records for the County Governments, Pennsylania State Archives, transcribed by G.D. Dixon.
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