Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Arnold, Jonathan (Enslaved persons listed: Bob)
- Beall, Betsey (Enslaved persons listed: Alice)
- Blackstone, James (Enslaved persons listed: Charles)
- Boyd, William (Enslaved persons listed: Bette, Andrew, Millie, Ben, Prissie, Samuel, Alexander)
- Brashears, Otho (Enslaved persons listed: Pegg, Simon, Diana)
- Breading, Nathaniel (Enslaved persons listed: Sam, Beck, Hamlet, Cass, Lydia, Jane, Aaron, David, Hannah, Luisa, Maria)
- Brown, Ann (Enslaved persons listed: Jack, Toby)
- Brown, Basil (Senior) (Enslaved persons listed: Grace, Charles, Henry, Frances, Bett, Susana)
- Brown, Basil (Junior) (Enslaved persons listed: Susana, Andrew)
- Brown, Joshua (Enslaved persons listed: Sally)
- Brown, Sarah (Enslaved persons listed: Kass)
- Brown, Thomas, Sr. (Enslaved persons listed: Dill)
- Burns, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Tom, Charity, James, Peter, Simon, Gorge)
- Byers, John (Enslaved persons listed: Mary)
- Cannon, Agnes (Enslaved persons listed: Hannah)
- Cannon, Daniel (Enslaved persons listed: Dinah, Tim, Jo, Bob)
- Canon, John (Enslaved persons listed: :Lucy)
- Clare, Thomas (Enslaved persons listed: Richard, Samuel, Andrew)
- Cook, Edward (Enslaved persons listed: Jacob, Sarah, Ephraim, Dennis, Elizabeth, Samuel, Joseph, Bazel)
- Crawford, Hanna (Enslaved persons listed: James)
- Crawford, William (Enslaved persons listed: Huldy)
- Cunningham, Hugh H. (Enslaved persons listed: Phillis [mother], Phillis [child])
Enslavement Data
- Slaveholder Name: Arnold, Jonathan
City or Township: Luzerne Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation:
Notes: See Jonathan Arnold's pre-1793 enslavement listings in Westmoreland County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
Sex: Male
Age: "25 or 26 years of age"
Date of Birth: circa 1763 (based on Arnold's registration of Bob in Westmoreland County)
Status: Slave for life; self-emancipated
Description: "Negro Man"
Notes: Arnold placed the following escape ad in a Pittsburgh newspaper:
RANAWAY from the subscriber, living in Fayette county, Luzerne townshp, a Negro Man named BOB, 25 or 26 years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches high, very black, much knock-kneed, has a large beard for his age, and full face, and a small bit off one of his ears; had on when he went off a white wool hat, half worn, country linen shirt, light coloured country cloth coat, with a seam across the shoulders, home-made fustian trowsers, new grey stockings, new shoes common square buckles. Whoever will secure said Negro so that I get him again, shall have Five Dollars if within 15 miles of home, and for every 15 miles further One Dollar, and reasonable charges if brought home, paid by
JONATHAN ARNOLD.
November 14, 1793.
Bob was actually about 30 years old when he escaped from Arnold in 1793.
Date of Record: 14 November 1793
Sources: Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, 28 December 1793.
- Slaveholder Name: Beall, Betsey
City or Township: Bullskin Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Widow
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Alice
Sex: Male
Age: Registered as "about four months old"
Date of Birth: circa September 1789
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 26 January 1790
Sources: "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; 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 29 January 2025.
- 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.
See pre-1783 enslavement records of James Blackstone, filed in Westmoreland County under the name James Blackston.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charles
Sex: Male
Age: Ten months old at registration.
Date of Birth: 08 June 1788
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 01 April 1789
Sources: "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; 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 29 January 2025.
- 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: Bette
Sex: Female
Age: Of childbearing age in 1797
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. Mother of MIlley, born in December 1797.
Date of Record: 27 March 1798 (date of return for the child Milley); 28 March 1798 (Sworn before Ephraim Douglass)
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; 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: One month old at registration
Date of Birth: 17 May 1795
Status: Slave to the age of 28 years
Description: "Negroe Male Child"
Notes: First of six "negro children" born to enslaved women brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution. (Ellis). Full text of Andrew's registration:
William Boyd Esquire and Farmer -- of Fayette County -- Bullskin Township -- Returns to the Clerk of the peace for said County -- A Negroe Male Child named Andrew born the seventeenth day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety five -- to be entered of Record agreeably to Law --
Wm. Boyd
17th June 1795 --
Sworn to before Ephraim Douglass
Date of Record: 17 June 1795
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; History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia, L H Everts and Company, 1882.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Milley, Millie
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old when registered
Date of Birth: 27 December 1797
Status: Slave to the age of 28 years
Description: "Negroe female Child"
Notes: Second of six "negro children" born to enslaved women brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution. (Ellis) Milley is "born of his Slave Bette."
Date of Record: 27 March 1798 (date of return); 28 March 1798 (Sworn before Ephraim Douglass)
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; 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 enslaved women brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution. (Ellis)
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 enslaved women brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution. (Ellis)
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 enslaved women brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution. (Ellis)
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 enslaved women brought to Bullskin Township by Boyd at the close of the Revolution. (Ellis)
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: Brashears, Otho
City or Township: Menallen Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: See pre-1783 enslavement records of Otho Brashears, filed in Westmoreland County. Surname also spelled Brashear in some records.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Pegg
Sex: Female
Age: Five years old at registration
Date of Birth: 25 December 1783
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 31 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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Simon
Sex: Male
Age: One year and nine months old at registration
Date of Birth: 08 June 1788
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro "a boy"
Notes:
Date of Record: 31 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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Diana
Sex: Female
Age: Six months old at registration
Date of Birth: 30 November 1790
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro "a boy"
Notes: The registration return for Diana was made by Walter Brashear for Otho Brashears.
Date of Record: 24 May 1791
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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Slaveholder Name: Breading, Nathaniel
City or Township: Luzerne 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.)
Brother of David Breading of Little Britain Township, Lancaster County.
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Beck
Sex: Female
Age: Three years old at registration
Date of Birth: 01 September 1785
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 24 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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hamlet
Sex: Male
Age: One year old at registration
Date of Birth: 08 March 1788
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 24 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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cass
Sex: Female
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: November 1790
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 23 March 1791
Source: 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Lydia
Sex: Female
Age: Two months old at registration
Date of Birth: 09 February 1800
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes: Mother of Maria (below), born December 1818
Date of Record: 25 March 1800
Source: 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jane
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old at registration
Date of Birth: 31 August 1802
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Mulatto
Notes:
Date of Record: 15 December 1802
Source: 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Aaron
Sex: Male
Age: Two weeks old at registration
Date of Birth: 30 November 1802
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 15 December 1802
Source: 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: David
Sex: Male
Age: Three months old at registration
Date of Birth: 24 October 1807
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 20 January 1808
Source: 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: Two months old at registration
Date of Birth: 27 June 1813
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 16 August 1813
Source: 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Luisa
Sex: Female
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 17 December 1816
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 17 April 1817
Source: 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Maria
Sex: Female
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 26 December 1818
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes: Daughter of Lydia, a term slave, (above)
Date of Record: 08 March 1819
Source: 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 29 January 2025.
- Slaveholder Name: Brown, Ann
City or Township: Menallen Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Widow
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: Five years old
Date of Birth: 20 July 1783
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro, "a boy"
Notes:
Date of Record: 01 April 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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Toby
Sex: Male
Age: Four years old
Date of Birth: 26 March 1785
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro, "a boy"
Notes:
Date of Record: 01 April 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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Slaveholder Name: Brown, Basil (senior)
City or Township: Menallen Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: There are two distinct slaveholders named Basil Brown in Menallen Township. The father, born in 1732 and the son, born in 1762. The entries below were registered with the county clerk as either "Basil Brown," (through 1793) or "Basil Brown, Sr.," beginning in 1794. For those attributable to his son, see Basil Brown, Jr., below.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Grace
Sex: Female
Age: Three years old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 03 December 1785
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 01 April 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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charles
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 26 September 1788
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 01 April 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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Henry
Sex: Male
Age: Five months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 26 August 1790
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "A Negro child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 02 February 1791
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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Frances
Sex: Female
Age: Two months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 16 January 1793
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Feemale Negro Childe"
Notes: Return signed by Basil Brashear
Date of Record: 19 March 1793
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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Batt (Bett)
Sex: Female
Age: Six months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 25 December 1793
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "A Negroe Child Being Afemal [a female]"
Notes: Registrant is "Basil Brown, Sr." Glenn Dixon's transcription of the record reports this child's name as "Natt" but an examination of the original return digitalized by the Pennsylvania State Archives shows the named is written as "Batt." Professor Cory Young's records report the name as "Bett."
Date of Record: 17 June 1794
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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Susana
Sex: Female
Age: Four months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 06 March 1802
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "a mulatto child"
Notes: Registrant is "Basil Brown, Sr., farmer, of Redstone Twp."
Date of Record: 10 July 1802
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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Slaveholder Name: Brown, Basil (junior)
City or Township: Menallen Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: There are two distinct slaveholders named Basil Brown in Menallen Township. The father, born in 1732 and the son, born in 1762. The entries below were registered with the county clerk as "Basil Brown, Jr.," the junior designation first appearing in April 1791. All other entries are assumed to be attributable to the father, Basil Brown, senior.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Susana
Sex: Female
Age: Eighteen days old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 12 April 1791
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "A Negro child"
Notes: The JATR database records Susana's date of birth as April 14, 1791. It also records the registrant as Basil Brown Jr.
Date of Record: 30 April 1791
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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Andrew
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 28 March 1797
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Negro Child"
Notes: The signature on the return is Basil Brown Jr.
Date of Record: 13 September 1797
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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Slaveholder Name: Brown, Joshua
City or Township: Springhill Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sally
Sex: Female
Age: Four months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 11 May 1798
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 25 September 1798
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.
- Slaveholder Name: Brown, Sarah
City or Township: Menallen Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: "Single woman"
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Kass
Sex: Female
Age: Eight months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 07 August 1787
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 01 April 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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Slaveholder Name: Brown, Thomas, Sr.
City or Township: Menallen Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: See pre-1783 enslavement records of Thomas Brown, filed in Westmoreland County. This is Thomas Brown who lived circa 1738-1797. He also had a son named Thomas Brown.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dill
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 27 November 1788
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro, "a girl"
Notes: Registration notes the entry filed by "Thomas Brown, Sr."
Date of Record: 01 April 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; 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 29 January 2025.
- Slaveholder Name: Burns, Samuel, Captain
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: "Negroe boy"
Notes: Son of Nance. Twin of Charity, below. Complete text of the registration note is below:
Description of Negroe Children the property of Samuel Burns of Washington Township in Fayette County Farmer --
Tom a Negroe boy of about four & half years old
Charity a Negroe girl of the same age -- they being twins, born of Nance a wench then the property of General Washington --
Samuel Burns
Fayette County. On the eleventh day of March 1789 the above named Samuel Burns made oath that the above description is true to the best of his knowledge.
Before Ephraim Douglass
An image of this registration paper is above. It appears to have been written out by the county prothonotary, Ephraim Douglass, and signed by Samuel Burns. The statement that the twins were born to an enslaved woman named Nance, "a wench then the property of General Washington," is lent credence by the presence of George Washington in Fayette County in September 1784, the approximate time of their birth. Washington was in western Pennsylvania inspecting his extensive land holdings in the region. In September of 1784 he spent time in nearby Washington County negotiating with "squatters" who had settled on large parcels of his land. We know that Nance is one of the enslaved people sent from Mount Vernon in 1773 to work on the grist mill and settlement called Washington's Bottom, located near present day Perryopolis in Fayette County and under the management of Washington's business associate Gilbert Simpson. The operation, including enslaved workers, was placed up for sale by Washington in the summer of 1784 when his business partnership with Simpson broke up.
Burns probably purchased Tom and his twin sister Charity at the public sale of George Washington's "stock" of the gristmill and plantation on the Youghiogheny River held on September 15, 1784. For the history behind this transaction, see "George Washington's Enslaved People in Fayette County."
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; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, "George Washington, Covenanter squatters Historical Marker," https://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php%3FmarkerId=1-A-28F.html, accessed May 5, 2026.
- 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: "Negroe girl"
Notes: Daughter of Nance. Twin of Tom, above. See above for full text of registration.
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: James
Sex: Male
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 01 April 1791
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 30 August 1791
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: Peter
Sex: Male
Age: Five months old at registration
Date of Birth: 29 August 1792
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "A Male Negro Child"
Notes: "His Mother a Slave named Susanah belonging to Samuel Burns farmer of Washington Township."
Date of Record: 11 February 1793
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 and cross referenced with digital images of the originals.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Simon
Sex: Male
Age: Five months old at registration
Date of Birth: 11 April 1794
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Negro Child"
Notes: Text of return: "Aprile 11th 1794 was born A mail Neagro Child now Called Simon of my Neagro woman Slave Called Sook which is to be Recorded for me
Sworn & Subscribed 8th Septr 1794 Samuel Burns of Washington Township Farmer"
Date of Record: 08 September 1794
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 and cross referenced with digital images of the originals.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Gorge
Sex: Male
Age: Five months old at registration
Date of Birth: 09 October 1795
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Negro Child"
Notes: Text of return:
October the 9th 1795 -- Was born a male neagro child by my wench named Gorge which i look upon to be my property
March the 4th 1796
Saml. Burns
Sworn to 4th March 1796
before Ephraim Douglass
Date of Record: 04 March 1796
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.
- Slaveholder Name: Byers, John
City or Township: Franklin Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Mary
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at registration
Date of Birth: 19 May 1798
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Mulatto Child"
Notes: Text of return:
John Byers Farmer, of Franklin Township Returns to the Prothonatery of Fayette County a Mulatto child (Born of a Black Woman a Slave) of the female kind named Mary Born the 19th Day of May 1798 To be Taught house Wiferey
John Byers
Sworn to 9th Octr 1795
Cor Ephraim Douglass
Date of Record: 09 October 1798
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.
- Slaveholder Name: Cannon, Agnes
City or Township: Franklin Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Housekeeper, Widow
Notes: Widow of Daniel Cannon
.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old at registration
Date of Birth: 18 February 1797
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Negroe Child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 25 May 1797
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.
- Slaveholder Name: Cannon, Daniel
City or Township: Franklin Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: Husband of Agnes Cannon
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: Age not given in document, but described as a "woman;" of childbearing age in December 1794
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Undetermined, but probably enslaved for life
Description: "Negro Woman"
Notes: Mother of Bob (listed below), born in December 1794, and whose return notes "Born of My Negro Woman Dinah."
Date of Record: 27 May 1795
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.
- 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: "Negro male child"
Notes: Text of Daniel Cannon's return:
I Daniel Cannon of the County Feyette provence of pennsylvania and township of Franklin farmer make Return of one Negro male Child Named Tim Born in November the Twenty Second in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven
Daniel Cannon
Sworn to and subscribed
the 14th March 1789
Before Ephraim Douglass
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jo
Sex: Male
Age: Three months old at registration
Date of Birth: 31 May 1793
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negro Boy"
Notes: Text of Daniel Cannon's return:
A Return of a Negro Boy Named Jo Born on My House the 31 Day of May 1793 Made by Daniel Cannon Farmer in Fayette County Franklin Township this 16th Day of September 1793
Daniel Cannon
Sworn & Subscribed
16th Sept 1793
Ephraim Douglass
Date of Record: 16 September 1793
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
Sex: Male
Age: Five months old at registration
Date of Birth: 17 December 1794
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negro Boy"
Notes: Return notes "Born of My Negro Woman Dinah."
Date of Record: 27 May 1795
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.
- Slaveholder Name: Canon, John
City or Township: Dunbar Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Lucy
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old at registration
Date of Birth: 24 October 1798
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Negro Child"
Notes: Canon's return for Lucy originally indicated only that she was, "aged 3 Months and Six days," and omitted her date of birth. The return was amended with the date of birth written in, in a different handwriting, between Canon's signature and the date. Without the exact date of birth, the return would not have fulfilled the legal requirements of the law and could have resulted in Lucy being adjudged a free person if challenged in court.
Date of Record: 30 January 1799
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.
- Slaveholder Name: Clare, Thomas
City or Township: Springhill Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer; land speculator
Notes: Named by the jailed freedom seeker Richard as the enslaver from whom he had escaped in 1793. See Clare's pre-1783 enslavement records in Westmoreland County. Thomas Clare settled on a farm on the east bank of the Monongahela River, naming the estate Dublin, after his home in Ireland. He leased land to Albert Gallatin, who later bought land next to Clare. Thomas Clare died in 1814.
- 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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Samuel
Sex: Male
Age: About two weeks old at registration
Date of Birth: 27 February 1794
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negro boy"
Notes: "Thomas Clair of Springhill Township Farmer, Return for Record one Negro boy named Samuel born the 27th Feby 1794 -- Thos. Clare
Sworn & Subscribed 17th March 1794."
Date of Record: 17 March 1794
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Andrew
Sex: Male
Age: One month old at registration
Date of Birth: 19 April 1798
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Negro child"
Notes: "Thomas Clare of Springhill Township Farmer, returns to be recorded one male negro child Named Andrew, born the 19th day of April 1798 Thos. Clare
Sworn & subscribed 24th May 1798 Coram Ephraim Douglass"
Date of Record: 24 May 1798
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.
- Slaveholder Name: Cook, Edward, Col.
City or Township: Washington Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Esquire
Notes: See pre-1783 enslavement records of Edward Cook, filed in Westmoreland County, including Esther, Nelly and Sue, the mothers 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: Cook's handwritten registration note for Jacob, Sarha and Ephraim says: "born of a slave of his called Easter." It also states: "Some say I am to be sworn to the Above, if so I will say it at Court." The note was then appended by the clerk as "Sworn to According to Law 26th March 1789 -- Before Ephraim Douglass."
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Esther
Sex: Female
Age: Six months old at registration
Date of Birth: 18 January 1791
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes: Daughter of Esther
Date of Record: 04 July 1791
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: Anne
Sex: Female
Age: Two years old at registration
Date of Birth: 26 March 1789
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes: Daughter of Esther
Date of Record: 04 July 1791
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: Dennis
Sex: Male
Age: Several months old at registration
Date of Birth: 05 May 1794
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes: Son of Nell. Cook registered Dennis and Elizabeth together sometime between mid-July and early September 1794:
Edward Cook makes return of two Children born of two of his female Slaves Viz
Dennis Born May 5th 1794 of Nell and Elizabeth born of Esther 27th June 1794 the first a Male the 2d a female to be recorded by the prothonatary as the Law directs &c.
Edw Cook
Date of Record: Summer 1794 (Undated return filed with the returns for 1794. The record before it was filed 19 July 1794 and the record after it was filed 08 September 1784.)
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 and cross referenced with digital images of the originals.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Age: Several months old at registration
Date of Birth: 27 June 1794
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes: Daughter of Esther (see text of registration with Dennis, above)
Date of Record: Summer 1794 (Undated return filed with the returns for 1794. The record before it was filed 19 July 1794 and the record after it was filed 08 September 1784.)
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 and cross referenced with digital images of the originals.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Samuel
Sex: Male
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 15 February 1796
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Negro Child"
Notes: Return notes "Born of his Slave Esther"
Date of Record: 27 June 1796
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: Joseph
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old at registration
Date of Birth: 13 August 1796
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negroe Child"
Notes: Text of sworn declaration:
Fayette County Ss
Before me one of the Common Wealth Justices for said County Came Edward Cook Esqr. and made Oath that a Negroe Child born of his Slave Nell named Joseph was born the thireenth day of August 1796 in order that said Child may be Recorded Agreable to the Act of Assembly in that Case made & provided &C.
Sworn & subscribed the 9th Day of February 1797
Edw Cook
Done before John Patterson
Recd. 11th Feby 1797
Date of Record: 09 February 1797
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: Bazel
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old at registration
Date of Birth: 18 April 1797
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negroe Male Child"
Notes: Text of return notes "born of his Slave Susanna."
Date of Record: 25 July 1797
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jesse
Sex: Male
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 09 October 1798
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Child"
Notes: Text of return notes "born of his Slave Nell."
Date of Record: 14 February 1799
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.
- Slaveholder Name: Crawford, Hanna
City or Township: Franklin Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Widow
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: James
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old at registration
Date of Birth: 06 November 1788
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 04 May 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: Crawford, William
City or Township: Brownsville, Redstone Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Merchant
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Huldy
Sex: Female
Age: One month old at registration
Date of Birth: 10 February 1798
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Negroe Child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 03 March 1798
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.
- Slaveholder Name: Cunningham, Hugh H.
City or Township: George Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: Formerly of Manor Township, Lancaster County. There is a Hugh Cunningham who served as Jailer of Lancaster in the early 1780s. This may or may not be the same person.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phillis
Sex: Female
Age: Age not specified in document, but described as a "wench."
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Undetermined
Description: "Negro winch"
Notes: Mother of Phillis, born July 1794. See below for full text of return and sworn statement from midwives Margaret Caldwell and Catherine Swearingen.:
Date of Record: 13 November 1794
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phillis
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old at registration
Date of Birth: 21 July 1794
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Mulatto Child"
Notes: Daughter of Phillis. Full text of return and sworn statement from midwives Margaret Caldwell and Catherine Swearingen:
We the under Subscribers Inhabitants of Springhill Township in the County of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify, Certify, and declare that we being Calld. upon by a certain Hugh H. Cunningham, late of mannor Township in the County of Lancaster and State aforesaid to pay attention to his negro winch named Phillis in her extrematy which She had at the Same time and pleace a femal Child boarn of her Boaday the fairest of Complection of aney we ever New aright negro to have which the purpose to Call Phillis the Child was Boarn Monday Moarning July the 21th one thousand Seven hundred and Ninety four as Witness our hands
To whom it may concarn} Margret (her mark) Caldwell Catherine (her mark) Swaringin
Hugh Cunningham of George Township Farmer Returns to be recorded one female Mulatto Child named Phillis born the 21st day of July 1794.
Hugh Cunningham
Sworn to and subscribed
13th Nov. 1794 before [bottom left corner torn or missing]
Date of Record: 13 November 1794
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.
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