Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Alexander, John (Enslaved persons: Cato)
- Allison, John (Enslaved persons: Milly, Liddy, Cezar, Ned)
- Allison, William (Enslaved persons: Tom, Lucia, George, Venus, Silvia)
- Anderson, Joshua (Enslaved persons: Luce)
- Anderson, Robert (Enslaved persons: Tom)
- Andrew, John (Enslaved persons: Cezar)
- Armstrong, Elizabeth (Enslaved persons: Mariah, Jane)
- Armstrong, Joseph (Enslaved persons: Bobb, Jin, Pithena)
- Aston, Owen (Enslaved persons: Mark)
- Aston, Owen, Jailer Listings (Enslaved persons: Un-named man, Henry Butler, Jack Butler)
- Bard, Archibald (Enslaved persons: Un-named female)
- Bard, Catherine (Enslaved persons: Sam, Bet)
- Bard, Richard (Enslaved persons: Jack, Alexander, Shaney, Bob)
- Barr, Thomas (Enslaved persons: Heas, Dinah, Bob, Hall, Fancy)
- Beard, John (Enslaved persons: Tom, Sall)
- Beard, Richard (Enslaved persons: Shaney, Luddy, Bett, Jack, Dina, Ben, Julay, Jae, Jane, Forgey)
- Beard, William (Enslaved persons: Violet)
- Beaver, John (Enslaved persons: Aram Smith)
- Boggs, John (Enslaved persons: Nill, Cuff, Prune)
- Bohn, Mrs. (Enslaved persons: Un-named woman and her two young children)
- Brackenridge, Martha (Enslaved persons: Ally, Rachel)
- Brown, George (Enslaved persons: Jack, Dick, Sampson, Silvey, Judy, Phillis, David, Peter, Phillip, Doll, Minto)
- Brownson, Richard (Enslaved persons: Frank, Susanah, Bess)
- Bryan, Nathaniel (Enslaved persons: Tony, Ally, Simon)
- Buchanan, James (Enslaved persons: Unnamed male and un-named "small coloured Girl")
- Buzzard, John (Enslaved persons: Jack)
- Byer, Frederick (Enslaved persons: Sam)
Enslavement Data
- Slaveholder Name: Alexander, John
City or Township: Guilford Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cato
Sex: Male
Age: 11
Date of Birth: circa 1769
Status: Slave for life;
Description:
Notes: Registered by John Alexander.
Date of Record: 1780
Sources: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 26 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Allison, John
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Milly
Age: 08a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Gender is presumed from name.
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Liddy
Age: 20a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cezar
Age: 35a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ned
Age: 01a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registered at 14 months of age
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Slaveholder Name: Allison, William
City or Township: Greencastle
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Lucia
Age: 08a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: George
Age: 34a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1746 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Venus
Age: 44a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1736 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Gender is presumed.
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Silvia
Age: 22a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: Given as 24 years old in both the 1792 and 1793 escape ads. He was listed as about age 16 in the 1780 Registration.
Date of Birth: circa 1764 (per Registration), or 1768 or 1769 (per escape ads)
Status: Slave for life; runaway
Description: "Negro Man"
Notes: Registered as a slave for life in 1780. Tom escaped from Allison on October 28, 1792. Allison placed the following runaway advertisement to recover him:
RAN-AWAY the 28th instant, from the subscriber, living in Franklin County, State of Pennsylvania, a Negro man named TOM, about 24 years of age, five feet ten or eleven inches high, stout made: He had on and took with him, two coats, an old one of a drab colour, the other an old gray coating, metal buttons on both, his jacket uncertain, but believe it is of a drab colour with metal buttons, tow shirt and fustian overalls, an old wool hat and old shoes; it is likely he may have other clothes with him, he has been accustomed to drive a waggon and may try to pass for a freeman. Whoever secures said Negro, that I may get him again, shall have, if ten miles from home, Three Pounds, and if more, Six Pounds and reasonable charges if brought home.
WILLIAM ALLISON.
October 30.
Allison recovered Tom, but almost exactly one year later, on October 14, 1793, Tom escaped from Allison again. The text of the runaway advertisement is below:
RANAWAY from the subscriber, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, the night of the 14th instant, a Negro Man named TOM, five feet nine or ten inches high, twenty four years of age, stout made, had on a gray coating sailors jacket, the buttons the same of the cloth, three buttons on the sleeves, coarse shirting shirt, a pair striped ticking trowsers, old shoes, high crowned felt hat, it is likely he may steal other cloathing, and will try to pass for a free negro. Whosoever secures said fellow that I get him, shall have Ten Dollars Reward, and if brought home reasonable charges, paid by WILLIAM ALLISON.
October 16, 1793.
Allison recovered Tom again at some point, and in April 1794 sold him to Thomas Cromwell of Huntingdon County to work at Cromwell's Bedford Furnace, from which Tom escaped in June 1794.
Date of Record: 30 October 1792; 16 October 1793
Sources: The Pennsylvania Herald and York General Advertiser, 31 October 1792; Carlisle Gazette, November 27, 1793; "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Slaveholder Name: Anderson, Joshua
City or Township: Fannett Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Luce
Sex: Female
Age: 10
Date of Birth: circa 1770
Status: Slave for life;
Description:
Notes: Registered by Joshua Anderson.
Date of Record: 1780
Sources: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 26 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Anderson, Robert
City or Township Fannet Township
Occupation
Notes Data cross entered on Cumberland County list.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 08
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Description: "Negor Boy"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 23, 1780
Source: "Miller Collection, 1750-1914 (Cumberland County Records)"
- Slaveholder Name: Andrew, John
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cezar
Age: 40
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 26 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Armstrong, Elizabeth
City or Township: Hamilton Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes: Widow of Joseph Armstrong, who died 1811. Elizabeth was an executor of his estate.
Source: Will of Joseph Armstrong (1811), Franklin County Will Book C: 19, County Clerk's Office, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Mariah
Sex: Female
Age: Not stated, but of childbearing age
Date of Birth: Not known but likely after 1780 due to her status as a term slave
Status: Slave for a term of years, 3 years and 5 months remaining; Runaway
Description: "Negro Wench"
Notes: Mariah ran away taking the child Jane on August 14, 1815. The text of the runaway advertisement is below:
Stop the Runaway!
Ten Dollars Reward.
RAN away on the 14th day of August, from the subscriber living 7 miles from Chambersburg, Hamilton Township, Franklin County, Penn. A NEGRO WENCH, named MARIAH. She took with her a Child about 4 years old, named Jane -- she is regularly recorded & has 3 years and 5 months to serve. She is tall & lusty, the toe next to her great toe on one of her feet lies on top of her other toes, she speaks plain English and has a bold look; had on and took with her, when she went off, a Cotton Dress, she may change her dress, as she has a quantity of other good clothing with her.
Whosoever takes up said girl and secures her in any jail, so that the subscriber gets her again, shall have TEN DOLLARS REWARD and all reasonable charges paid, and also whosoever will take up said Child, and bring it home to the subscriber, shall be well rewarded for their trouble.
ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG.
August 22, 1815.
Date of Record: 22 August 1815
Source: Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, PA), 22 August 1815.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jane
Sex: Female
Age: "about 4 years old"
Date of Birth: circa 1811
Status: Slave for a term of years; Runaway
Description: "Child"
Notes: Very likely the daughter of Mariah, above. Mariah ran away taking the child Jane on August 14, 1815. The text of the runaway advertisement is under the entry for Mariah, above.
Date of Record: 22 August 1815
Source: Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, PA), 22 August 1815.
- Slaveholder Name: Armstrong, Joseph
City or Township: Hamilton Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes: Husband of Elizabeth Armstrong. Elizabeth was an executor of his estate upon his death in 1811.
Source: Will of Joseph Armstrong (1811), Franklin County Will Book C: 19, County Clerk's Office, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bobb
Sex: Male
Age: 21
Date of Birth: Circa 1759
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Notes:
Date of Record: 1780
Source: Franklin County, Pennsylvania, "1780 Slave and Slave Owners Register," https://lfweb.franklincountypa.gov/WebLinkArchives/Browse.aspx?startid=5980240&dbid=0, accessed 13 October 2023.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jin
Sex: Female
Age: 24
Date of Birth: Circa 1756
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Notes:
Date of Record: 1780
Source: Franklin County, Pennsylvania, "1780 Slave and Slave Owners Register," https://lfweb.franklincountypa.gov/WebLinkArchives/Browse.aspx?startid=5980240&dbid=0, accessed 13 October 2023.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Pithena
Sex: Female
Age: 2 years and 3 months
Date of Birth: Circa 1777 to 1778
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Notes:
Date of Record: 1780
Source: Franklin County, Pennsylvania, "1780 Slave and Slave Owners Register," https://lfweb.franklincountypa.gov/WebLinkArchives/Browse.aspx?startid=5980240&dbid=0, accessed 13 October 2023.
- Slaveholder Name: Aston, Owen
City or Township: Guilford
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes: For jailer listings, see below.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Mark
Age: 7
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 26 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Aston, Owen, Jailer Listings
City or Township: Chambersburg
County: Franklin
Occupation: County Jailer
Notes: Listings here are for those persons jailed by Aston.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not provided in advertisement
Sex: Male
Age: Age not provided, but described in the ad as a "man."
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Escaped slave
Description: "Negro Man"
Notes: This man escaped from enslavement in Virginia only to be captured in Franklin County and placed in the county jail at Chambersburg. On the night of July 26, 1786 he broke out of jail in company with a German man, Andrew Deeter, on July 26, 1786.
Ten Dollars Reward.
BROKE the goal of Franklin county, on the night of the 26th instant, a certain ANDREW DEETER, German born, but speaks good English, 5 feet 7 inches high, dark complexion, had on a light blue cloth jacket, corduroy breeches, woolen stockings, small wool hat; formerly lived in Bucks county.
Also a NEGROE MAN, 6 feet high, well made, had on a tow shirt and trousers; says he belongs to Henry Hains, in Bedford county, state of Virginia. Whoever apprehends the above persons and delivers them to the subscriber in Chambersburgh, shall have the above reward or five dollars for either, and reasonable charges, by me OWEN ASTON, Goaler.
July 31, 1786.
Date of Record: 31 July 1786.
Source: The Carlisle Gazette and Western Repository of Knowledge, 02 August 1786.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Henry Butler
Sex: Male
Age: Age not provided, but described in the ad as a "man."
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Claims to be free; jailed as suspected escaped slave
Description: "Negro Man"
Notes: Butler was jailed on July 1, 1795. He had been in jail for over a month before Aston advertised that he was holding him.
A Runaway Negro Man,
WAS committed to the goal of Franklin County, the first of July last, he calls himself Henry Butler, he is about five feet eight inches high, he says he belongs to a family of free Negroes, that is called Butler's Negroes, near George-Town in Maryland. His master is desired to come and take him away in four weeks from the date, or he will be discharged on paying his fees.
OWEN ASTON.
Chambersburg, August 3, 1795.
The "Butler Negroes" of Maryland were hundreds of persons descended from the 1681 marriage of an enslaved Black man named Charles Butler and Eleanor "Irish Nell" Butler, a free white indentured woman. A 1664 colonial Maryland law mandated that Eleanor, by marrying an enslaved man, would herself become enslaved, as well as all of her children. The law was repealed by the Assembly at the urging of Lord Baltimore, but the repeal only took effect on the last day of the Assembly, so Nell and her husband remained enslaved and their enslavers remained owners of all their children and descendants. But since the children were born after the law was repealed, they questioned whether they should have been considered free. Between 1787 and 1791, hundreds of descendants filed more than ninety suits with the Maryland courts, and won every case. The fascinating story of these landmark rulings is summarized by William G. Thomas III in the article "Suing for Freedom," in Lapham's Quarterly Roundtable, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/suing-freedom, accessed 07 August 2024.
Date of Record: 03 August 1795.
Source: The Chambersburg Gazette, 20 August 1795.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack Butler
Sex: Male
Age: Age not provided, but described in the ad as a "man."
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Escaped slave
Description: "Negro Man"
Notes: Butler was captured in Franklin County and placed in the county jail at Chambersburg on September 26, 1803.
A NEGROE MAN,
WHO calls himself Jack Butler, on the 26th ultimo was committed to the Goal of Franklin county, on a charge of absconding from Thomas Bell of George Town, Maryland, but who now says he was sold by Mr. Bell to a person who was about to carry him, with several others, to the state of Georgia.
He is about five feet seven or eight inches high, about 22 years of age, has a scar on his right eye brow, which appears to have occasioned by a burn, and is much addicted to laughing. The owner is requested to call at the Goal above mentioned, and pay his fees, and take him away -- otherwise he will be discharged.
OWEN ASTON.
August 13th, 1803.
Date of Record: 13 August 1803
Source: The Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, PA), 17 August 1803.
- Slaveholder Name: Bard, Archibald
City or Township: Peter's Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not provided in advertisement
Sex: Female
Age: Age not provided, but if she was being held to the typical 28-year term and has ten years yet, she would be about 18 years old.
Date of Birth: circa 1785
Status: Enslaved for a term of years
Description: "Negro Wench"
Notes: Advertised for sale in November 1803: "For Sale, A NEGRO WENCH, who has 10 years to serve -- She understands all kind of house work. For terms apply to ARCHIBALD BARD. Peters township, Nov. 1st, 1803."
Date of Record: 01 November 1803.
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly, 07 December 1803.
- Slaveholder Name: Bard, Catherine
City or Township: Peter's Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes: Widow of Richard Bard, below.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
Sex: Male
Age: Age not provided, but described as a "boy."
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Not determined
Description: "Negro boy"
Notes: Bequeathed to son Thomas Bard. As part of the bequest, Thomas was to pay "Catharine McFarland and Martlia Wilson five pounds each for every year Sam should serve."
Date of Record: Will probated 18 October 1811.
Source: G. O. Seilhamer, The Bard Family, Chambersburg, PA, 1908, p. 199.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bet
Sex: Female
Age: Age not provided, but described as a "woman."
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Not determined
Description: "Negro woman"
Notes: Bequeathed to daughter Olivia Erwin.
Date of Record: Will probated 18 October 1811.
Source: G. O. Seilhamer, The Bard Family, Chambersburg, PA, 1908, p. 199.
- Slaveholder Name: Bard, Richard
City or Township: Peter's Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes: Four enslaved persons were part of his estate, as below.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: Age not provided, but an adult male.
Date of Birth:
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Notes: Valued at £50.
Date of Record:
Source: G. O. Seilhamer, The Bard Family, Chambersburg, PA, 1908, p. 199.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Alexander
Sex: Male
Age: Age not provided, but an adult male.
Date of Birth:
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Notes: Valued at £45.
Date of Record:
Source: G. O. Seilhamer, The Bard Family, Chambersburg, PA, 1908, p. 199.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Shaney
Sex: Not determined
Age: Age not provided, but an adult.
Date of Birth:
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Notes: Valued at £45.
Date of Record:
Source: G. O. Seilhamer, The Bard Family, Chambersburg, PA, 1908, p. 199.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
Sex: Male
Age: Age not provided, but an adult male.
Date of Birth:
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Notes: Valued at £50.
Date of Record:
Source: G. O. Seilhamer, The Bard Family, Chambersburg, PA, 1908, p. 199.
- Slaveholder Name: Barr, Thomas
City or Township Lurgan Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Heas
Age: 50
Sex: Not determined from name
Date of Birth: 1730 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
Age: 30
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
Age: 6
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hall
Age: 4
Sex: Not determined from name
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Fancy
Age: 2
Sex: Not determined from name
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Beard, John
City or Township Letterkenny Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 24
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sall
Age: 17
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Beard, Richard
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Shaney
Age: 26
Sex: Sex not determined from name on record
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Luddy
Age: 26
Sex: Sex not determined from name on record
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bett
Age: 26
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: 8
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dina
Age: 7
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ben
Age: 5
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Julay
Age: 4
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jae
Age: 3
Sex: Sex not determined from name on record
Date of Birth: 1777 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jane
Age: 1
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Forgey
Age: 1
Sex: Sex not determined from name on record
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Beard, William
City or Township Letterkenny Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Violet
Age: 14
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Beaver, John
City or Township: Peter's Township
County: Franklin
Occupation: Forgemaster, Valley Forge
Notes: Operated Valley Forge in partnership with William Pott. They frequently advertised as "Pott & Beaver"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Aram Smith
Sex: Male
Age: "about 19 years old"
Date of Birth: 1788 (calculated)
Status: Runaway
Description: "Negro boy"
Notes: Aram ran away from the forge in April, 1807. The text of the runaway advertisement is below:
Five Dollars Reward.
Ran away from the subscriber, living in Peters township, Franklin County, a negro boy, about 19 years old, who calls himself Aram Smith -- had on and took away with him a new roram hat, brown cloth roundabout, striped nankeen overalls, & yellow handkerchief about his neck, has lost part of the little finger of the right hand; it is suspected that he keeps about Chambersburg or Shippensburg. Whoever takes up said negro boy and puts him in any Jail, shall have the above reward.
POTT & BEAVER.
April 27, 1807
Date of Record: 27 April 1807
Source: Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, PA), 12 May 1807.
- Slaveholder Name: Boggs, John
City or Township Guilford Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nill
Age: 25
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cuff
Age: 5
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Prune
Age: 3
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1777 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Bohn, Mrs.
City or Township: Mercersburg
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Sex: Female
Age: Age not given but described as a "woman."
Date of Birth: Not known, probably before 1780
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negro Woman"
Notes: This woman and her two young children were advertised for sale in October 1817. The text of the sale advertisement is below:
FOR SALE,
A Negro Woman and her two children, the one a boy about 3 years of age, the other a girl of about eighteen months. The woman is a slave well acquainted with house work. The children have been regularly recorded. Enquire of the Printer, or Mrs. Bohn, Mercersburg.
October 28, 1817.
Date of Record: 28 October 1817
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg, PA), 04 November 1817.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Sex: Male
Age: "about 3 years of age"
Date of Birth: circa 1814
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negro boy"
Notes: This boy, his sister and mother were advertised for sale in October 1817. The text of the sale advertisement is above.
Date of Record: 28 October 1817
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg, PA), 04 November 1817.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Sex: Female
Age: "about eighteen months"
Date of Birth: circa April 1816
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negro girl"
Notes: This girl, her brother and mother were advertised for sale in October 1817. The text of the sale advertisement is above.
Date of Record: 28 October 1817
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg, PA), 04 November 1817.
- Slaveholder Name: Brackenridge, Martha
City or Township Lurgan Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ally
Age: 23
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1757 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
Age: 2
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Brown, George
City or Township Antrim Township (Franklin County as of 1784)
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: 35a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Doll
Age: 02a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Peter
Age: 05a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Philip
Age: 04a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Silvey
Age: 35a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sampson
Age: 17a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: David
Age: 08a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Minto
Age: 11a
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phillis
Age: 13a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Judy
Age: 25a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dick
Age: 25a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Returns for Negro and Mulatto Slaves, 1780-81, 1788-1811, 1813-21, 1824-26, 1833"
- Slaveholder Name: Brownson, Richard
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation Doctor
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bess
Age: ?
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: ?
Description: A Little Girl
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registration notes: "A Little Girl age unnone," (unknown).
Date of Record October 23, 1780
Source: "Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves--Cumberland County, Pennsylvania"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Frank
Age: 20a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registration notes: "Supposed to be about 20 years of age."
Date of Record October 23, 1780
Source: "Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves--Cumberland County, Pennsylvania"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Susanah
Age: 21a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registration notes: "Supposed to be about 21 years of age."
Date of Record October 23, 1780
Source: "Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves--Cumberland County, Pennsylvania"
- Slaveholder Name: Bryan, Nathaniel
City or Township Fannett Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tony
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Ally
Age: 15
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Simon
Age: 10
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1770
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Buchanan, James
City or Township: Mercersburg
County: Franklin
Occupation: Farmer, merchant
Notes: 1761-1821, Father of 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan. His wife, Elizabeth (Speer) Buchanan is listed in the advertisement below.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Unnamed
Sex: Male
Age: Age not given in ad. If enslaved for the typical 28 years, he would be about 22 years old.
Date of Birth: Not stated. Circa 1794 if he is 22 years old, as noted above.
Status: Enslaved for a term of years -- has six years to serve as of date of ad.
Description: "Negro Boy"
Notes: Advertised for sale in March 1816. The text of the sale advertisement is below:
TO BE SOLD,
The time of a stout healthy
Negro Boy,
who has about six years to serve, and is sold chiefly for want of employment. For terms apply to the subscriber.
JAS. BUCHANAN.
Mercersburg, March 29.
Date of Record: 29 March 1816
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg, PA), 19 April 1816.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Unnamed
Sex: Female
Age: Young
Date of Birth: Not stated
Status: Enslaved for a term of years -- has five years to serve as of date of ad.
Description: "Small active coloured Girl"
Notes: Upon the death of slaveholder James Buchanan, the unnamed young girl in his estate was to be auctioned off at a public sale on March 5, 1822, along with the remainder of his possessions. The text of the public sale advertisement is below:
PUBLIC SALE.
Will be sold, at public sale, on a credit of nine months, at the late dwelling house of James Buchanan, deceased, in Mercersburg, on Tuesday the 5th of March next, if a fair day, if not, the next fair day, all the personal property of the deceased, viz.
A very large quantity of Wheat, Rye, Corn and Oats by the bushel; a quantity of Hay by the ton; a large variety of Household and Kitchen Furniture; the time of a small active coloured Girl who has almost five years to serve; Horse, Cows, &c. &c.
ELIZABETH BUCHANAN,
ELLIOTT T. LANE,
WILLIAM M'CLELLAND,
February 12.
Date of Record: 12 February 1822
Source: Franklin Repository, (Chambersburg, PA), 12 February, 1822.
- Slaveholder Name: Buzzard, John
City or Township Hamilton Township
Occupation Miller
Notes Born Johann Daniel Bossert, in Alsace, France, 1741. Revolutionary War soldier. Died 1805.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: 8
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 28 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Byer, Frederick
City or Township: Antrim Township
County: Franklin (Cumberland at time of 1779 ad for Sam)
Occupation:
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
Sex: Male
Age: "about sixteen years of age"
Date of Birth: circa 1763
Status: Slave for life, runaway
Description: "Mulatto lad"
Notes: Born on Long Island, New York. Sam escaped from Byer on July 19, 1779. The text of Byer's runaway advertisement is below:
SIXTY DOLLARS REWARD
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Antrim township, Cumberland county, on the nineteenth of July last, a likely Mulatto lad named SAM, about sixteen years of age, near five feet high, well made, looks lively, is very talkative, and speaks good Dutch and English; He had on a light coloured lincey jacket, hempen shirt and trowsers, and a straw hat with a blue ribband for a band round it. Whoever secures said Mulatto so that the owner may get him again, shall have the above reward, and if brought home reasonable charges, paid by
FREDERICK BYER.
N.B. It is supposed he is gone to Long-Island, as he was born there.
Date of Record: 12 August 1779
Source: Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser, 12 August 1779.
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