Franklin County, Pennsylvania Slaveholders C-E

Enslaved Person's Name: Pheb
Age: about 15; or 25 (see notes)
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1755 or 1765 (see notes)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes: The Franklin County Walk Unbowed Project reports the age at Registration of this person as 25. The typewritten transcript in the Pennsylvania Archives reports her age as 15. Need to check original document to determine correct age.
Date of Record 1780
Source: 1780 Slave Registrations

Slaveholder Name: Campbell, James
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Phill
Age: 43
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1737 (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: Julius
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: Moll
Age: 45
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1735 (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: Doll
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: Sam
Age: 10
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1770 (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: Fleck
Age: 6
Sex: Sex not determined from name in record
Date of Birth: circa 1774
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: Agg
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: Campbell, Patrick
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
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: Peter
Age: 2
Sex: Male
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: Campbell, William
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: 55
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1725 (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: Campbell, William (2)
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: George
Age: 22
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1758 (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 Chambers, Benjamin, Col.
City or Township Guilford Township (later Franklin County)
Occupation Gave his occupation in the 1780 registrations as "Gentleman."
Notes This is Colonel Benjamin Chambers of Chambersburg area. See also his son Captain Benjamin Chambers, below.

Enslaved Person's Name: Phebee
Age: 04a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 24 August 1780
Source: 1780 Slave Registrations
Enslaved Person's Name: Dina
Age: 30a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 24 August 1780
Source: 1780 Slave Registrations
Enslaved Person's Name: Nell
Age: 15a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 24 August 1780
Source: 1780 Slave Registrations
Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 01a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: October 1780
Slave Description Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 24 August 1780
Source: 1780 Slave Registrations
Enslaved Person's Name: Pegg
Age: 12a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 24 August 1780
Source: 1780 Slave Registrations
Enslaved Person's Name: Fanny
Age: 07a
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Date of Record 24 August 1780
Source: 1780 Slave Registrations

Slaveholder Name: Chambers, Benjamin
City or Township: Chambersburg
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes: This appears to be Captain Benjamin Chambers, 1755-1813, son of Colonel Benjamin Chambers, above.

Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
Sex: Male
Age: "about thirty years of age"
Date of Birth: circa 1758
Status: Slave for life, self-emancipated in April 1788
Description: "Negro Man"
Notes: Bob escaped from Chambers on April 15, 1788. The text of Chamber's May 1788 escape notice and offer of reward is below:
Four Dollars Reward.
RAN-AWAY from the subscriber living in Chambersburgh, Franklin county, on the 15th instant: -- A NEGRO MAN, named BOB, about thirty years of age, five feet nine inches high, well made, had on a short blue coathing coat, snuff coloured velvet breeches, old white broad cloth jacket, all of the above cloths has mettle buttons, good shoes and buckles, with white yarn stockings; he has bee bred to the tanning business, and perhaps may have procured a pass. --
Whoever secures said Negro in any jail, so that his master gets him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, by
BENJAMIN CHAMBERS.
Chambersburgh, 5th May, 1788.
Date of Record: 05 May 1788
Source: The Carlisle Gazette and the Western Repository of Knowledge, 07 May 1788.
Enslaved Person's Name: Peter
Sex: Male
Age: Age not given in ad, but described as a "man"
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Enslavement status unknown, self-emancipated in March 1811
Description: "Mulatto man"
Notes: Sam escaped from Chambers on March 10, 1811. The text of Chamber's May 1811 runaway advertisement is below:
10 DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, in the night of the 10th of March last, a mulatto man servant, named PETER.
He had on when he went away, a homespun gray cloth short coat and pantaloons, and wool hat; and took with him a drab broad cloth surtout, with gilt buttons. His complexion is so light that it is probable he will pass for a white man. -- There is a scar on one of his cheeks, and a finger wanting on his right hand -- he is fond of liquor.
Whoever will secure the said runaway in any jail, shall have the above reward, and if brought home, reasonable charges.
BENJAMIN CHAMBERS.
Chambersburg, May 4, 1811.
Date of Record: 04 May 1811
Source: The Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, PA), 29 May 1811.

Slaveholder Name: Chesnut, John
City or Township Hamilton Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Cuff
Age: 38
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1742 (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: Clapsaddle, Daniel
City or Township Washington Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Margey
Age: 10
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1770 (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: Clarke, James
City or Township Letterkenny Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Suck
Age: 20
Sex: Female
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: Pad
Age: 1
Sex: Male
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: Cook, Joseph
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Nana
Age: 50
Sex: Female
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: Jack
Age: 10
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1770 (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.
Enlaved Person's Name: Dine
Age: 42
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1738 (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.
Enlaved Person's Name: Sampson
Age: 12
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1768 (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.
Enlaved Person's Name: Robon Roch (Roach)
Age: 19
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1761 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: This appears to be the same enslaved man that escaped from William Cook in September 1787.
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: Cook, William
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Robin
Sex: Male
Age: "about twenty six years of age"
Date of Birth: circa 1761
Description: "Negro Man"
Status: Slave for life; self-emancipated September 1787
Notes: This appears to be the same enslaved man as registered by Joseph Cook at age 19 in 1780. Robin escaped from William Cook on September 3, 1787. Cook placed the following escape ad in a Philadelphia newspaper:
Franklin County, Antrim Township, Sept. 7, 1787. RAN-AWAY in the night of the third instant, from the subscriber a NEGRO MAN named ROBIN, about twenty six years of age, he is five feet six inches high well made, had on and took with him, one Nankeen coat, red silk Jacket and Fustain do. Overalls, black breeches and white stockings, shoes and buckles and felt hat, he is an active cunning fellow, he has a false queue tied to his hair. Whoever takes up said Negro and secures him so that I may have him again, shall have twelve dollars reward, paid by
WILLIAM COOK.
N.B. There is one thing remarkable, if seen, he has two teeth in his upper jaw, stands further out than the rest, over his under lip.
Date of Record 1780
Source: The Pennsylvania Journal or Weekly Advertiser, 22 September 1787.

Slaveholder Name: Coulter, Samuel
City or Township Fannett Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Phillis
Age: 14
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Phillis appears in the Pennsylvania Septennial Census of 1835, enumerated in Fannett Township as "Phillis a woman of colour belonging to Messrs Saml & Matthew Coultier held as a slave for life age about 70 years." The next Septennial Census, taken in 1842, also appears to report her living, still enslaved, in Fannett Township, but incorrectly reports her age as 96, when she would actually have been about 76 or 77. It is common to see greatly exaggerated ages reported for very elderly enslaved people.
Date of Record 26 October 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: Cox, Samuel
City or Township: Lurgan / Southampton Township
County: Franklin
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: Cox reported his township as Lurgan, in the 1780 registration for Ebenezer. Southampton was organized as a separate township in 1783.

Enslaved Person's Name Ebenezer
Age: 25a
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: circa 1755
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 30, 1780
Source: 70
Enslaved Person's Name: William Sims
Sex: Male
Age: 17a
Date of Birth: 1807 (calculated)
Status: Slave for a term of yeasrs; Runaway
Description: "Mulatto servant boy"
Notes: William escaped on September 2, 1824. The text of Cox's runaway advertisement is below:
$5 Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber living in Southampton township, Franklin county, on the night of the 2d inst. a mulatto servant boy, named
WILLIAM SIMS,
about 17 years of age, had on a new wool hat, a new roundabout and pantaloons striped blue and white, old calf-skin shoes.
The above boy is about five feet five or six inches high, somewhat freckled, wears his hair in a large curly top in front, has large fore teeth. The public are cautioned against harboring, feeding or concealing him at their peril. Any person securing said runaway in jail or otherwise, so that I can get him again, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges.
SAMUEL COX.
September 7.
Date of Record: September 7, 1824
Source: Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, PA), 14 September 1824

Slaveholder Name: Craighead, John
City or Township Rocky Spring
Occupation Minister, Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church
Notes Lived 1742-1799. Born in Carlisle, attended Princeton College, probably the place where he became acquainted with Isaac Snowden.
Source: Centennial Memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle, vol. 2, pp. 47-48; Nevin’s Encyclopedia, p. 162.

Enslaved Person's Name: Sam, a.k.a. Samuel Thomas
Age: "about 21 years old"
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: circa 1773
Description: "Quarter blooded mulatta fellow"
Status: Slave for life; self-emancipated June 1794
Notes: Per Craighead's description, Samuel Thomas was registered as a slave for life by Isaac Snowden of Philadelphia. Snowden sold Thomas to Craighead with the stipulation that he would be freed at age 28, which would be in 1801, if he served Craighead "faithfully and honestly." Craighead's advertisement for Thomas' reovery states that agreement is "now forfeited" by his escape and he is now again considered a slave for life.
Forty Dollars Rewa[r]d. RANAWAY from the subscriber, living in Franklin county, near to Chambersburgh, Pennsylvania, on the 6th inst. a quarter blooded mulatta fellow, named SAM, but will probably call himself Samuel Thomas. --
He has not much of the appearance of a mulatto, either in features or colour, being whiter than many who are called white men. He is a stout made fellow, about 21 years old, and 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high. He has strait brown hair, to which he often add a false queue. He has grey eyes, and generally looks sour and surly, which does not proceed from hypocrisy, but is a real index of his temper. He has a pretty large black or brown mole on his neck, which is usually covered with the collar of his shirt. He took with him a new homespun drab-coloured coat and waistcoat, once shorn and pressed; the coat had large metal buttons of a mixed yellowish hue, and the waistcoat had small plain white metal buttons; a pair of beaver fustian overalls, a cotton pattern jacket, with a flowered border, a pair of new coarse shoes, with pretty large smoaked buckles, a new wool hat with blue lining, one or more fine shirts, a pair or two of woven thread stockings, and a home made tow cloth shirt and trowsers. Said fellow will no doubt pretend to be a freeman, and deny that he is a mulatto, but he is, by birth, a slave for life, recorded in due time, although his former master, Mr. Isaac Snowden, of Philadelphia and I, agreed, that if he would serve me faithfully and honestly until he would be 28 years of age, he should be a free man, which he has now forfeited.--
Whoever takes up the above described mulatto, and secures him, so that his master may get him again, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges if brought home.
JOHN CRAIGHEAD.
Rocky Spring, Franklin county, June 12, 1794.
Since enslavement status for mixed race children depended upon the status of the mother, Samuel Thomas, being one-quarter Black, was legally considered a slave because his maternal grandmother was an enslaved Black woman.
For another story of an escaped man claiming a link to the Philadelphia Snowden family, see the 1796 imprisonment of Harry in the Dauphin County jail.
Date of Record 12 June 1794
Source: Pittsburgh Gazette, 28 June 1794.

Slaveholder Name: Crunkleton, John
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
Age: 36
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1744 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Charles
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1762 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 15
Sex: Male
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Jean
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Jin
Age: 8
Sex: Female
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Nancy
Age: 6
Sex: Female
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Culbertson, Joseph
City or Township Letterkenny Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Guy
Age: 23
Sex: Male
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 30 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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Culbertson, Samuel
City or Township Letterkenny Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Honey
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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Cummin, Charles
City or Township: Letterkenny Township (1780); "near Strasburg" (1800 escape ad for Bill)
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes: Last name spelled Cummins in 1780 Registrations of Madlin and Bill

Enslaved Person's Name: Madlin
Age: 24
Sex: Female
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Bill
Sex: Male
Age: "about twenty-six years of age" (from escape ad);
Date of Birth: circa 1773 or 1774
Status: Slave for life; Runaway
Description: "Negro Man"
Notes: Registered as a slave for life at age 7 in 1780. Bill escaped on August 29, 1800. The text of the runaway advertisement is below:
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD. RAN away from the subscriber, living in Franklin County, near Strasburg, on the 29th of August last, a Negro Man, named BILL, about five feet five or six inches high--about twenty-six years of age, --he is a short thick built fellow with a smiling countenance when he talks, and has lost one of his fore teeth--he inclines to play on the fiddle--took with him when he went away, a mixed coloured blue coat; and a blue coat faced with red--a wool hat--a corduroy jacket, and two shirts.-- It is probable he has got a counterfeit pass with him.-- Whoever takes up said runaway, and brings him to the subscriber, or puts him in the nearest Jail, so that he may get him, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
CHARLES CUMMIN. September 19th, 1800.
Date of Record: September 19, 1800
Sources: Klines Carlisle Weekly Gazette, October 08, 1800; "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Davis, David Sr.
City or Township: Peters Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes:

Enslaved Person's Name: Hanna
Age: 40
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Jean
Age: 19
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1761 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Jem
Age: 10
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1770 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: George
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Nance
Age: 5
Sex: Female
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Sall
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: John
Age: 1 year and 6 months
Sex: Male
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Joe
Age: 1 year and 3 months
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1778 or 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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Davis, David Jr.
City or Township: Peters Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes:

Enslaved Person's Name: Bill
Age: 22
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1758 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Dine
Age: 19
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1761 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Kate
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Jean
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Jeak
Age: 13
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1767 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Age: 11
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1769 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
Age: 9
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1771 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Peggy
Age: 1 year and 6 months
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Bill
Age: 1 year
Sex: Male
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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name Davis, Philip
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Dolly
Age: 12a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 30, 1780
Source: 70

Slaveholder Name: Davis, Robert
City or Township: Antrim Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes:

Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: 35
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1745 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Mings
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1764 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Sally
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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Davis, Samuel
City or Township: Peters Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes:

Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: 10
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1770 (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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Davison, Elias
City or Township: Antrim Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes: Lived 1736 - 1806. Settled in Antrim Township about1760. Married Agnes McDowell, daughter of Major John McDowell, in 1771. Click here for notes on the Davison family and a photograph of the Davison Family graveyard.

Enslaved Person's Name: Allick
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Gim
Age: 17
Sex: Not determined, see notes
Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Sex not recorded in the record below. Name suggests it could be "Jim" and a male, or "Gin" and a female. This slaveholder bequeathed a "Negro boy" named Jim to his daughter in 1804. If it is the same person, Jim/Gim would have been 41 at the time the will was written. Hardly a "boy," yet this term was commonly used for enslaved adult men. The other person willed, Rose (see below), was described as a "Negro girl" yet she was about 44 years old at that time, so this is possible.
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person Names: Jim
Sex: Male
Age: Not stated, but described as "boy."
Date of Birth: Not stated
Status: Not stated
Description: "negro boy"
Notes: In his will, dated June 18, 1804, Davison leaves "negro boy Jim" to his daughter Mary Davison.
Date of Record: Will dated 18 June 1804, proved 23 April 1806
Source: "Abstracts and Letters of Administration: Franklin Co, PA," Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn K. Shearer. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/franklin/wills/willabst01.txt accessed February 24, 2005.
Enslaved Person's Name: Nick
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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Rody
Age:22
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1758 (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 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person Names: Rose
Sex: Female
Age: 20 (1780 Registration)
Date of Birth: circa 1760
Status: Slave for life
Description: "negro girl"
Notes: In his will, dated June 18, 1804, Davison leaves "negro girl Rose" to his daughter Mary Davison.
Date of Record: Will dated 18 June 1804, proved 23 April 1806
Source: "Abstracts and Letters of Administration: Franklin Co, PA," Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn K. Shearer. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/franklin/wills/willabst01.txt accessed February 24, 2005; "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 30 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Jude
Age:9
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1771 (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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Dickey, James
City or Township: Peters Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:
Notes:

Enslaved Person's Name: Cast Steel (Casteel)
Sex: Male
Age: "twenty one years old"
Date of Birth: Circa 1773
Status: Escaped
Description: "Negro Man"
Notes: Escaped from Dickey on September 22, 1794. Dickey placed the following ad for his recovery:
Six Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber in Franklin county, Peters township, on Monday the 22d day of this instant,
A Negro Man,
named Cast Steel, twenty one years old, about five feet nine or ten inches high, is stout made and likely, has the mark of a cut across his nose, had on when he want away a blue waistcoat, two shirts and old trowsers, no hat nor shoes.
Whoever takes up said negro and secures him in goal so that I can have him, shall have the above reward and reasonable charges if brought home, paid by me James Dickey.
September 29th 1794.
Date of Record: 29 September 1794
Source: Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette, 22 October 1794.
Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Sex: Male
Age: Age not given in ad, but described as a "boy."
Date of Birth: Circa 1773
Status: Slave for a term of years; two-and-a-half years remaining to serve
Description: "Negro Boy"
Notes: Offered for sale in May 1803. Jailed in Chambersburg, either for a crime, or at Dickey's request, while being offered for sale. Dickey placed the following ad to sell him:
FOR SALE,
THE time of an indented Negro Boy, who has too years and a half to serve, now in jail at Chambersburg. Any person wanting to purchase him, may know the terms by applying to the subscriber.
JAMES DICKEY.
New-Mills, Peters township, Franklin county, May 16.
Date of Record: 16 May 1803
Source: The Franklin Repository (Chambersburg), 18 May 1803.

Slaveholder Name: Dixon, Robert
City or Township Hamilton Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Moll
Age: 30
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1750 (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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Dixon, William
City or Township Hamilton Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Mungo
Age: 22
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1758 (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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Dixon, William (2)
City or Township Hamilton Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Sampson
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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Downey, James
City or Township Washington Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Grace
Age: 9
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1771 (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 30 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Downey, William
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Grace
Age: 18
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1762 (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 31 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Doyle, Edward W.
City or Township: Concord, Fannett Township
County: Franklin
Occupation: Innkeeper, County Commissioner
Notes: 1781-1840

Enslaved Person's Name: Ann Smallwood
Sex: Female
Age: 4
Date of Birth: Born about 1805 in Frederick County, Maryland
Status: Illegally enslaved after 1809. See notes.
Description: "Negro"
Notes: Gifted to Doyle and his wife Nancy in 1809 by his father-in-law, Henry Spalding, of Frederick County, Maryland. In 1821, Doyle illegally sold Ann to James Shoaf of Williamsport, Maryland, for $200. Shoaf, upon discovering that Ann was born enslaved in Maryland, then brought to Pennsylvania in 1809 at age 4 and thus became free, took out newspaper advertisements in a public campaign to shame Doyle.
Proof of the transfer of Ann Smallwood from Henry Spalding of Frederick County, Maryland, to Nancy and Edward Doyle of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, was supplied by Edward Doyle himself, who published a letter from his brother-in-law Francis Spalding, son of Henry Spalding, saying "I do certify, that Ann Smallwood was a Slave for life to my father, Henry Spalding. In 1809 he gave her to his daughter and Edw'd W. Doyle, said Ann was about four years old." For more details, see this page.
Date of Record: October 9, 1821
Source: Franklin Republican, 09 October 1821, page 3.

Slaveholder Name: Dunwoody, David
City or Township: Montgomery Township
Occupation:
Notes:

Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Age: Age not given but described as a "boy."
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: If his term of enslavement was the typical 28 years, and he had 11 years to serve, he would have been 17 when offered for sale, and born circa 1790.
Description: "Negro Boy"
Status: Slave to (age 28?) with 11 years to serve
Notes: Offered for sale in January 1807. Text of sale ad: "For Sale, A NEGRO BOY, Who is active, strong and healthy, well acquainted with farming, and has eleven years to serve. Enquire of DAVID DUNWODY. Montgomery township, Franklin county Jan. 12, 1807."
Date of Record 12 January 1807
Source: The Franklin Repository (Chambersburg), 13 January 1807.

Slaveholder Name: Dunwoody, Thomas
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Cuff
Age: 30
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1750 (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 31 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Jude
Age: 30
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1750 (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 31 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Will
Age: 13
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1767 (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 31 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: 4
Sex: Male
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 31 July 2024.
Enslaved Person's Name: Mary
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 31 July 2024.

Slaveholder Name: Elder, David
City or Township Fannett Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Rose
Age: 16
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: circa 1764
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registered in Carlisle
Date of Record 26 October 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 31 July 2024; 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 17 February 2025.

Slaveholder Name: Elder, David, Sr.
City or Township Fannett Township
Occupation Farmer, Esquire
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Age: 31
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: circa 1749
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registered in Carlisle
Date of Record 26 October 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 31 July 2024; 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 17 February 2025.

Slaveholder Name: Elder, John
City or Township Fannett Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes

Enslaved Person's Name: Shuse
Age: 15
Sex: No sex specified in Registration. Unable to determine based on name on record
Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
Description: "Mulatto"
Status: Slave to the age of 31
Notes: Registered in Carlisle
Date of Record 24 October 1780
Source: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 31 July 2024; 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 17 February 2025.

Slaveholder Name: Elliott, Robert
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes Lived circa 1730-1768. Father of Benjamin Elliott of Huntingdon County.
1. Enslaved Person's Name: Name not recorded
  Age: Age not specified but described in will as a "woman"
  Sex: Female
  Date of Birth: Not known
  Description: "Negro woman"
  Status: Slave for life
  Notes: Bequeathed to his second wife Martha (nee Barnett) "during her life or till her death or marriage"
  Date of Record 02 March 1768 (date of will)
  Source: Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of The Juniata Valley, Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, MIfflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania, J. M. Runk & Co., Chambersburg, PA, 1897, p. 1.

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