Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Jackson, John (Enslaved persons listed: Rachel)
- Lane, Presley Carr (Enslaved persons listed: Rachel)
- Laughlin, Hugh (Enslaved persons listed: Priscilla, Lucy, Jane, Bill, Dinah)
- Laughlin, John (Enslaved persons listed: Jacob)
- Long, Alexander (Enslaved persons listed: Nancy, Harry, Eowan, Joy or ?)
- Long, Andrew (Enslaved persons listed: Aggy)
- Long, Robert (Enslaved persons listed: Alford)
- Lynch, James (Enslaved persons listed: Hannah, Jacob, Samuel, Isaac, Young)
- Lynn, Andrew, Colonel (Enslaved persons listed: Frank, Poll, Sam)
- McClean, Alexander, Col. (Enslaved persons listed: Harry, James, Nelly, Jacob, Isaac)
- McClean, Robert (Enslaved persons listed: Jack)
- McClelland, John (Enslaved persons listed: Jack)
- McFarland, John, Major (Enslaved persons listed: Charles)
- McGruder, Hezekiah, Captain (Enslaved persons listed: Benjamin, Leah, Jeremiah, Anna, Sarah, Henry Fitz Edward, Charles Fitz Edward, Susanna, Priscilla, Robert, Rebecca, Jamima)
- Meason, Isaac (Enslaved persons listed: Maria, Lindsay)
- Moore, John (Enslaved persons listed: Dick, Tom)
- Moore, Mary (Enslaved persons listed: Loos, Tarry)
- Murphy, Anne (Enslaved persons listed: Jerry)
- Murphy, Jacob (Enslaved persons listed: Venus, Dina, Nel, Peter)
Enslavement Data
- Slaveholder Name: Jackson, John
City or Township: Union Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Miller
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
Sex: Female
Age: Ten days old at registration
Date of Birth: 10 December 1791
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Negro Child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 20 December 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.
- Slaveholder Name: Lane, Presley Carr
City or Township: Bullskin Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Politician
Notes: Moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania from Virginia in 1787. Served in the Pennsylvania State Senate between 1794-1798 and 1802-1816. Moved to Kentucky circa 1818.
Source: Library of the Senate of Pennsylvania, "Member Biography: Presley Carr Lane, Sr.," https://www.library.pasen.gov/people/member-biography?id=4906, accessed 13 May 2026.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at registration
Date of Birth: 22 February 1795
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Negro Child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 05 August 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: Laughlin, Hugh
City or Township: Menallen Township (1795); Redstone Township (1801)
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Esquire
Notes: See pre-1783 enslavement records of John Hugh, filed in Westmoreland County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Priscilla
Sex: Female
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 15 November 1794
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Mulatto child"
Notes: Return made by John Laughlin for Hugh Laughlin
Date of Record: 21 March 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: Lucy
Sex: Female
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 20 October 1800
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Negro child"
Notes: Text of return: "Hugh Laughlin of Redstone Township Esquire returns to be recorded one female Negro child named Lucy born the 20th day of October 1800 / Hugh Laughlin / Sworn to Subscribed / 17th April 1801 Cor."
Date of Record: 17 April 1801
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: Jane
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at registration
Date of Birth: 10 March 1803
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Negro child"
Notes: Text of return: "Hugh Laughlin of Redstone Township Fayette County Esquire Returns to be recorded one female Negro child named Jane born the tenth day of March 1803. Hugh Laughlin / Sworn to and subscribed 17th day of August 1803 Coram Ephraim Douglass."
Date of Record: 17 August 1803
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: Bill
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old at registration
Date of Birth: 16 June 1804
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male negro child"
Notes: Text of return: "Hugh Laughlin of Redstone Township Fayette County, Esquire, returns to be recorded one male negro child named Bill born 16th day of June 1804 Hugh Laughlin / Sworn to & subscribed 14th December 1804 Corm Ephraim Douglass"
Date of Record: 14 December 1804
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: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at registration
Date of Birth: 16 May 1806
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Mulatto Child"
Notes: Text of return: "Hugh Laughlin Esqr of Redstone Township Fayette County returns to be recorded a female Mulatto Child named Dinah, born the 16th day of May 1806. Hugh Laughlin / Sworn to and subscribed 16th Octr 1806 Coram Ephraim Douglass"
Date of Record: 16 October 1806
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: Laughlin, John
City or Township: Springhill Township and Menallen Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: Died in 1800. The History of Fayette County, by Franklin Ellis (1882) describes Laughlin's slaveholding in beneficient terms, falling for the then popular notion that slaveholding was socially acceptable as long as slaveholders were kind and generous to the people they enslaved. Ellis notes on page 726:
Laughlin was a bachelor, a farmer of some enterprise, and employed slave labor almost exclusively...He had been an excellent master to his slaves, and in his will left to each one a substantial reminder of his thoughtful care. Laughlin was not only a kindly-disposed and gentle master to his servants, he was an earnest and faithful worshipper at the Dunlap's Creek Church, despite the fact that he was not a member thereof.
See pre-1783 enslavement records of John Laughlin, filed in Westmoreland County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jacob
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old at registration
Date of Birth: 05 January 1790
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes: Return made by Hugh Laughlin for John Laughlin
Date of Record: June 1790
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: Long, Alexander
City or Township: Tyrone Township;
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nancy
Sex: Female
Age: Two months old at registration
Date of Birth: "Middle of October 1790"
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 14 December 1790
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: Harry
Sex: Male
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 07 November 1792
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Negro Child"
Notes:
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: (?)oy (writing unclear)
Sex: Female
Age: Six months old at registration
Date of Birth: 30 July 1807
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "a female mulatto child"
Notes: Long's residence for this return shows as Menallen Township.
Date of Record: 20 January 1808
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: Eowan
Sex: Male
Age: One month old at registration
Date of Birth: 19 February 1810
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "a male child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 16 March 1810
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: Long, Andrew
City or Township: Springhill Township;
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Aggy (see notes)
Sex: Female
Age: Six months old at registration
Date of Birth: 30 July 1807
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Mulato Child"
Notes: Text of registration: "Andrew Long of Springhill Township in the County of Fayette farmer returns for Registry A female [undecipherable word crossed out] Mulato Child named Aggy Aged five months & Nineteen days She was born 30th July AD 1807 Andw. Long. / Sworn to & subscribed 20th Jany 1808 Coram Ephraim Douglass Clk"
The child's name is written in between lines and is partially obscured by the up-strokes of letters from the line below. Dixon transcribed this name as "?oy." The JATR database transcribes it as "Pegy." At issue is the first letter of the name. It most appears as an "A" and is nearly identical to the A that begins the enslaver's first name (Andrew) written at the beginning of the return.
Date of Record: 20 January 1808
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: Long, Robert
City or Township: Springhill Township;
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Sickle maker
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Alford
Sex: Male
Age: Two months old at registration
Date of Birth: 24 or 25 January 1808
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Mulattoe Boy"
Notes: Text of registration:
Robert Long of Springhill Township Fayette County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Sickle Maker Returns to Ephraim Douglass Esquire Clerk of the Peace of the County aforesaid -- One Mulattoe Boy named "Alford" Born on the twenty fourth or twenty fifth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eight -- to be Recorded &c.
Robert Long
Sworn & subscribed 31st March 1808
Coram Ephraim Douglass Clerk
Date of Record: 31 March 1808
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: Lynch, James
City or Township: Washington Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: See pre-1783 enslavement records of James Lynch, filed in Westmoreland County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: Age not given in document, but of childbearing age in 1786 and described as a "woman."
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negroe woman"
Notes: Mother of Jacob, born circa early1786, recorded below.
Date of Record: 08 January 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: Jacob
Sex: Male
Age: "About three years of age"
Date of Birth: 1786
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negroe boy"
Notes: Text of return:
Jacob A Negroe boy of about three years of age, born in Washington Township in Fayette County Where his master now lives, of a Negroe woman named Hannah the property of the Subscriber.
Wintess my hand the 8th day of January 1789.
James Lynch
Date of Record: 08 January 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: Samuel
Sex: Male
Age: A few weeks old when registered
Date of Birth: 28 April 1797
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Negroe child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 17 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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old when registered
Date of Birth: 05 July 1799
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negro Male Child"
Notes: Text of record: "James Lynch, Farmer of Washington Township Fayette County enters a Negro Male Child born on the fifth day of July last past named "Isaac," to be Recorded -- James Lynch / Sworn & subscribed 4th January 1800 cor Ephraim Douglass"
Date of Record: 04 January 1800
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: Young
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old when registered
Date of Birth: 07 June 1801
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male negro child"
Notes: Text of record: "James Lynch of Washington Township Fayette County Farmer returns to be recorded one male negro child named Young born the 7th day of June 1801. / Sarah Lynch / Sworn to subscribed 4th October 1801 before Ephraim Douglass" Note the return was made by and sworn to by Sarah Lynch for James Lynch.
Date of Record: 04 October 1801
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: Lynn, Andrew, Colonel
City or Township: Menallen Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: See pre-1783 enslavement records of Col. Andrew Lynn, filed in Westmoreland County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Frank
Sex: Female (per 1789 registration: "a girl")
Age: Five years old at time of registration
Date of Birth: "born near the end of June 1783"
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "a girl"
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Poll
Sex: Female
Age: Three years old at time of registration
Date of Birth: December 1785
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "a girl"
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
Sex: Male
Age: Nearly five months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 02 May 1789
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "a boy"
Notes:
Date of Record: 28 October 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: McClean, Alexander, Colonel
City or Township: Uniontown
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Surveyor, Lawyer (1799), Recorder of Deeds (1803)
Notes: Assisted Mason and Dixon in running the Mason-Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. With Col. Andrew Porter, assisted in surveying and runing the line establishing Pennsylvania's western border up to Erie. Brother of Moses McClean of Adams County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Harry
Sex: Male
Age: about 7 years old
Date of Birth: 28 December 1789
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes: Registered by McClean as the son of Sal, "a slave."
Date of Record: 29 December 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: James
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 11 October 1795 "on the Morning of"
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Negroe Child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 09 April 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; 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: Nelly
Sex: Female
Age: Six months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 04 July 1798
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negroe Female Child"
Notes: Return text notes "born on the evening of the fourth day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight"
Date of Record: 04 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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jacob
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 07 June 1800, 9 PM
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negro Male Child"
Notes: Text of registration: "Alexander MClean of Union Town Register &c. Returns to the prothonotary of Fayette County to be Recorded, a Negro Male Child named Jacob born on the Seventh day of June last, about nine a Clock P.M. / 5th Decr. 1800 Alexander MClean / Sworn to 5th Decr. 1800 Cor. Ephraim Douglass"
Date of Record: 05 December 1800
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: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: Five months old at time of registration
Date of Birth: 13 August 1802
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes: McClean reported his occupation as "Deputy Surveyor, Register of Wills, and Recorder of Deeds for Fayette Co." Text of registration:
Alexander MClean of Union Town Fayette County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Deputy Surveyor, Register of Wills and Recorder of Deeds in and for said County; Returns to Ephraim Douglass Esquire Prothonotary of said County A Negroe Male Child named Isaac born on the thirteenth day of August last past -- to be Recorded.
Alexander MClean
12th January 1803.
Sworn to the same day
Ephraim Douglass
Date of Record: 12 January 1803
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; 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: McClean, Robert
City or Township: German Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: About six months old when registered
Date of Birth: 05 May 1798
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:"Male Negro child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 03 November 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: McClelland, John
City or Township: Franklin Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: See McClelland's earlier registration of enslaved persons in Westmoreland County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: About five months old when registered
Date of Birth: May 1790
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 12 October 1790
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: McFarland, John, Major
City or Township: Springhill Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: "Major of Militia"
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charles
Sex: Male
Age: Six months old
Date of Birth: 07 June 1794
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Negro Child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 05 December 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.
- Slaveholder Name: McGruder, Hezekiah, Captain
City or Township: Washington Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation:
Notes: Lived circa 1750-1788. See McGruder's earlier registration of enslaved persons in Westmoreland County, which includes the mothers of some of the enslaved children listed below. The 1789 return of children born to women enslaved by McGruder was made by his estate executrix and mother-in-law Margaret Hutton nee Goe.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Benjamin
Sex: Male
Age: about 7 years old
Date of Birth: 01 January 1781
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Son of "Rachel, a slave." Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, of Washington Twp."
Date of Record: 1788 (record 328)
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: Leah
Sex: Female
Age: about 5 years old
Date of Birth: 26 May 1783
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Daughter of "Rachel, a slave." Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, of Washington Twp."
Date of Record: 1788 (record 329)
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: Jeremiah
Sex: Male
Age: about 5 years old
Date of Birth: 30 December 1783
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Son of "Hannah, a slave." Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, of Washington Twp."
Date of Record: 1788 (record 330)
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: Anna
Sex: Female
Age: about 2 years old
Date of Birth: 10 May 1786
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Daughter of "Hannah, a slave." Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, of Washington Twp."
Date of Record: 1788 (record 331)
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: Old enough to bear children in 1783
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Mulatto Slave"
Notes: Mother of Henry Fitz Edward, born May 1783, and Charles Fitz Edward, born September 1785. Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, returned by Margaret Hutton, of Washington Twp, Executrix,"
Date of Record: 05 February 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: Henry Fitz Edward
Sex: Male
Age: about 6 years old
Date of Birth: 10 May 1783
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Son of "Sarah, a mulatto slave." Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, returned by Margaret Hutton, of Washington Twp, Executrix,"
Date of Record: 05 February 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: Charles Fitz Edward
Sex: Male
Age: about 4 years old
Date of Birth: 17 September 1785
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Son of "Sarah, a mulatto slave." Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, returned by Margaret Hutton, of Washington Twp, Executrix,"
Date of Record: 05 February 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: Susanna
Sex: Female
Age: Old enough to bear children in 1783
Date of Birth: Not known (possibly 1763, see notes)
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Slave"
Notes: Mother of Priscilla, born December 1783, Robert, born December 1785, twin daughters Rebecca and Jamima, born 30 June 1788, and twins Daniel and Esther, born June 1790 in the household of Margaret Hutton. Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, returned by Margaret Hutton, of Washington Twp, Executrix," This is probably the same enslaved woman registered as a slave for life by Margaret Hutton in Westmoreland County in 1782.
Date of Record: 05 February 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: Priscilla
Sex: Female
Age: about 5 years old
Date of Birth: 29 December 1783
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Daughter of "Susanna, a slave." Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, returned by Margaret Hutton, of Washington Twp, Executrix,"
Date of Record: 05 February 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: Robert
Sex: Male
Age: about 3 years old
Date of Birth: 25 December 1785
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes: Son of "Susanna, a slave." Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, returned by Margaret Hutton, of Washington Twp, Executrix,"
Date of Record: 05 February 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: Rebecca
Sex: Female
Age: about 8 months old
Date of Birth: 30 June 1788
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Twin of Jamima, below
Notes: Twin daughter of "Susanna, a slave." Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, returned by Margaret Hutton, of Washington Twp, Executrix,"
Date of Record: 05 February 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: Jamima
Sex: Female
Age: about 8 months old
Date of Birth: 30 June 1788
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Twin of Rebecca, above
Notes: Twin daughter of "Susanna, a slave." Return of "Capt. H. Magruder, deceased, returned by Margaret Hutton, of Washington Twp, Executrix,"
Date of Record: 05 February 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: Meason, Isaac
City or Township: Dunbar Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Ironmaster, Farmer (1806 registration of Maria)
Notes: Lived 1747 - 1818. Born in Virginia and moved to western Pennsylvania in 1771. He acquired land in Fayette County in 1775. Built Mount Vernon Furnace, also called Jacob's Creek Furnace and Alliance Iron Works, in Bullskin Township. Father-in-law of James Ashman. See also Isaac Meason's registrations of enslaved persons in Westmoreland County.
Source: "Biographical / Historical," Isaac Meason Ledger and Mount Vernon Furnace Records, 1798-1825, AIS.2016.08a, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Maria
Sex: Female
Age: "Aged three months and twenty one days" as of the date of the return, April 1, 1806
Date of Birth: 10 December 1805
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negroe Girl"
Notes: Text of registration return:
Isaac Meason of Dunbar Township in the County of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania farmer returns for Entry to the Clerk of the peace of said County a Negroe Girl named Maria aged three months and twenty one days April 1st 1806
Sworn to & subscribed the same day Coram
Ephraim Douglass
March 1 / Feby. 2 / Jany. 3 / Decr. 10th 1805.
Returns were legally required to include the exact date of birth for the child being registered. Meason's return here specified only her age in months and days. To make it legal, Douglass made notes at the bottom of the page, counting backwards to arrive at an exact date, which is noted in the final line.
Date of Record: 01 April 1806
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: Lindsay
Sex: Male
Age: "Aged two months and twenty eight days" as of the date of the return, December 26, 1807
Date of Birth: 28 August 1807
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negroe boy"
Notes: Text of registration return: "Isaac Meason of Dunbar Township in the County of Fayette Ironmaster, returns for entry to the Clerk of the peace of the said County a Negroe boy named Lindsay aged two months and twenty eight days -- born the 28th day of August 1807. Isaac Meason / Sworn to and subscribed 26 Decr. 1807 Coram"
Because Pennsylvania law required the enslaver to include the actual date of birth of the child being registered, and not the child's age, the written age was struck out, probably by the Prothonotary, Ephraim Douglass, as a precaution.
Date of Record: 26 December 1807
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: Moore, John
City or Township: Menallen Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Wheelwright
Notes: Lived circa 1750-1788. See McGruder's earlier registration of enslaved persons in Westmoreland County.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dick
Sex: Male
Age: Two years old
Date of Birth: 21 February 1787
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro
Notes:
Date of Record: 30 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: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: One month old
Date of Birth: 20 February 1789
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes:
Date of Record: 30 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: Moore, Mary
City or Township: Springhill Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Widow
Notes: .
- Enslaved Person's Name: Loos
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at registration
Date of Birth: 05 October 1789
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro, "a female child"
Notes: Return made by Aaron Moore for Widow Moore.
Date of Record: 08 March 1790
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: Tarry
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at registration
Date of Birth: 06 or 07 June 1792
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Negroe child"
Notes:
Date of Record: 26 November 1792
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: Murphy, Anne
City or Township: Union Township
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Widow
Notes: .Murphy (also spelled Murphey on same document} signed her return for Jerry with a "mark" instead of a signature.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jerry
Sex: Male
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 18 January 1795
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Male Negro child"
Notes: Murphy (also spelled Murphey on same document} signed her return for Jerry with a "mark" instead of a written signature.
Date of Record: 16 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, transcribed by G.D. Dixon.
- Slaveholder Name: Murphy, Jacob
City or Township: Franklin Township (1798) Dunbar Township (1801)
County: Fayette County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Venus
Sex: Female
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 04 July 1798
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Mulatto Girl"
Notes: Text of return:
Jacob Murphy of Franklin Township Fayette County Farmer returns for Entry a Female Mulatto Girl named Venus of the age of four months and Twenty days to the best of his knowledge born the 4th day of July 1798
Jacob Murphey
To Ephraim Douglass Esqr
Prothonotary
Sworn to and Subscribed 24th
Nov. 1798 Coram.
Ephraim Douglass
In the text of the return, handwritten by Murphy, above, the words "born the 4th day of July 1798" were inserted in the distinct handwriting of Prothonotary Ephraim Douglass. The intent of the insertion would be to ensure the return was legally valid by including a specific date of birth for the child, instead of only Murphy's statement about the enslaved child's age.
Date of Record: 24 November 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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dina
Sex: Female
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 15 January 1801
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Negroe Child"
Notes: Text of return:
Jacob Murphy of Dunbar Township Fayette County, Farmer, returns for Record a female Negroe Child named Dina aged four months born the 15th day of January 1801
May 15th 1801
Jacob Murphey
Sworn to & subscribed
15th May 1801 Coram
Ephraim Douglass
Both surname spellings, "Murphy" and "Murphey" appear in this document.
Date of Record: 15 May 1801
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: Nel
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old at registration
Date of Birth: 03 February 1803
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Mulatto Child"
Notes: Text of return:
Jacob Murphy of Dunbar Township farmer returns to the Clerk of the Peace of Fayette County to be recorded a female Mulatto Child named Nel aged three months and seventeen days -- born 3d Feby 1803 --
May 21st 1803
Jacob Murphey
Sworn & subscribed 21 May 1803
Coram Ephraim Douglass.
Both surname spellings, "Murphy" and "Murphey" appear in this document.
Date of Record: 21 May 1803
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: Peter
Sex: Male
Age: Four months old at registration
Date of Birth: 22 May 1805
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Female Mulatto Child"
Notes: Text of return:
Jacob Murphy of Dunbar Township in the County of Fayette & State of Pennsylvania, farmer returns for entry to the Clerk of the peace of the said County a negroe Boy named Peter aged four months and nine days
Jacob Murphey October 1, 1805
born 22 May 1805 [this line in a different handwriting]
Both surname spellings, "Murphy" and "Murphey" appear in this document.
Date of Record: 01 October 1805
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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