Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Finlay, James (Enslaved persons: Sampson, Beck, Doll, Cuff, Will)
- Finlay, Samuel (Enslaved persons: Kate, Luce, Tom)
- Finley, John (Enslaved persons: Rachel)
- Fullerton, David (Enslaved persons: Un-named woman)
- Fullerton, Humphrey (Enslaved persons: Rachel, Jin, Rhoda, Cesar, Jack, Kate)
- Gass, William (Enslaved persons: Phill, Phillis, Phillip, Nail, Sam)
- Gordon, Henry (Enslaved persons: Tom)
- Hayes, William (Enslaved persons: Hannah, Two un-named girls)
- Herron, James (Enslaved persons: Cuff, Richard, Jerry, Sall, Precila)
- Herron, John (Enslaved persons: Jerry, Sall)
- Holiday, Adam (Enslaved persons: Bill, Paris, Hannah, Nell)
- Holliday, John (Enslaved persons: Sambo, Dine, Sue, Sall, Venus)
- Humphries, David (Enslaved persons: Un-named man)
- Huston, David (Enslaved persons: Sam)
- Huston, William (Enslaved persons: Phillis, Hannah, Jacob, Rachell, Dinah, Tom, Toncy)
- Irwin, Archibald (Enslaved persons: Thomas, Eneas, Hannah)
- Irwin, James (Enslaved persons: Harry, Hannah)
- Irwin, John (Enslaved persons: Phebe)
- Irwin, Joseph (Enslaved persons: Abram)
- Irwin, William (Enslaved persons: Tom)
- Irwin, William, Jr. (Enslaved persons: Nell)
Enslavement Data
- Slaveholder Name Finlay, James
City or Township Letterkenny
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sampson
Age: 30a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Beck
Age: 05a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Doll (see Notes)
Age: 15a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes: A different transcriber has recorded the name of this persons as "Bell"
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cuff
Age: 16a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Will
Age: 24a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Slaveholder Name Finlay, Samuel
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes Father of Pennsylvania Governor William Findlay.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Kate
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.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Luce
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 31 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
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 31 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name: Finley, John (also spelled "Findlay")
City or Township: Letterkenny
County: Franklin (then Cumberland)
Occupation:Farmer
Notes: Husband of Mary Finley. In the 1768 tax assessments, John Findlay of Letterkenny is assessed for 2 horses, 4 cows, 12 sheep, and 1 negro. (Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Tax Records, 1768 Assessments)
- Enslaved Person Names: Rachel
Sex: Female
Age: Not determined
Date of Birth: Not determined, but before 1783.
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negro wench"
Notes: In his will, dated , Finley leaves "the Negro wench called Rachel" to his wife Mary.
Date of Record: Will dated 9 August 1783, proved 21 October 1783
Source: Will of John Finley, Letterkenny, Cumberland County Will Book D, 38.
- Slaveholder Name: Fullerton, David
City or Township: Greencastle
Occupation: Merchant, farmer, banker, politician
Notes: Major, War of 1812. Elected Representative to US Congress, 1819-1820. Served in PA Senate 1827-1839.
Source: "Fullerton, David, 1772-1843," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/F000416, accessed 15 August 2024.
In 1792, David Fullerton was bequeathed the man Cesar by his father, Humphrey Fullerton.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Age: Age not given in ad, but if this person was being held to the typical 28-year-term of enslavement, she would be 25 years old.
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: Possibly 1789, if this person was a slave for 28 years
Description: "Negro Woman"
Status: Slave for a term of years, 3 years remaining
Notes: Offered for private sale in conjunction with a public sale of the enslaver's farm livestock and equipment.
PUBLIC SALE.
THE subscriber will offer at public sale, on Wednesday the 6th day of April next, the following property, viz. -- Horses, Cows, Sheep and Hogs; two new Wagons, one of which is broad wheels; Ploughs, Harrows, Horse Gears, and a variety of Farming Utensils. Sale to begin at 10 o'clock on said day -- due attendance and reasonable credit will be given, by
DAVID FULLERTON.
March 22, 1814.
P.S. The subscriber will sell at private sale, a NEGRO WOMAN, who has about 3 years to serve.
Date of Record 22 March 1814
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg, PA), 26 March 1814.
- Slaveholder Name Fullerton, Humphrey
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes Revolutionary War veteran; father of David Fullerton, above.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: In the 1792 estate inventory of Humphrey Fullerton, "Negro Rachel" was valued at £40. In Humphrey Fullerton's will, he bequeathed Rachel to his wife Martha.
Date of Record 1780 (Registration); 19 February 1792 (Estate inventory)
Sources: "1780 Slaves and Slave Owners Register," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 31 July 2024; "Humphrey Fullerton - Inventory and Appraisement, Page 1," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 15 August 2024; "Will of Humphrey Fullerton, yeoman, late of Antrim Township, Franklin County, PA," Written 15 December 1791. Probated 31 January 1792, https://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?387,543506, accessed 15 August 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jin
Age: 12 years and 10 months
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: This person does not appear in the 1792 estate inventory of Humphrey Fullerton.
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: Rhoda
Age: 4
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes: This person does not appear in the 1792 estate inventory of Humphrey Fullerton.
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: Cesar or Ceasor
Age: Age not given in document. Inventory valuation indicates an adult.
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: Not known
Description: "Negro"
Status: Not determined
Notes: In the 1792 estate inventory of Humphrey Fullerton, "Negro Cesar" was valued at £70. In Humphrey Fullerton's will, he bequeathed "Negro Ceasor" to his son David Fullerton.
Date of Record 19 February 1792
Sources: "Humphrey Fullerton - Inventory and Appraisement, Page 1," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 15 August 2024; "Will of Humphrey Fullerton, yeoman, late of Antrim Township, Franklin County, PA," Written 15 December 1791. Probated 31 January 1792, https://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?387,543506, accessed 15 August 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jack
Age: Age not given in document. Inventory valuation indicates an adult.
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: Not known
Description: "Negro"
Status: Not determined
Notes: In the 1792 estate inventory of Humphrey Fullerton, "Negro Jack" was valued at £70. In Humphrey Fullerton's will, he bequeathed "Negro Jack" to his son Humphrey.
Date of Record 19 February 1792
Sources: "Humphrey Fullerton - Inventory and Appraisement, Page 1," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 15 August 2024; "Will of Humphrey Fullerton, yeoman, late of Antrim Township, Franklin County, PA," Written 15 December 1791. Probated 31 January 1792, https://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?387,543506, accessed 15 August 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Kate
Age: Age not given in document. Inventory valuation indicates a young girl in 1792.
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: Not known
Description: "Negro wench"
Status: Not determined
Notes: In the 1792 estate inventory of Humphrey Fullerton, "Negro Kate" was valued at £30. Adult working men Cesar and Jack were appraised at £70 each, while 32-year-old Rachel was appraised at £40. Kate, appraised at £30 was considered less valuable than the adult woman Rachel, indicating she was probably a girl too young to perform adult work. In Humphrey Fullerton's will, he bequeathed "negro wench named Kate" to his daughter Elizabeth.
Date of Record 19 February 1792
Sources: "Humphrey Fullerton - Inventory and Appraisement, Page 1," Franklin County Archives, Walk Unabowed Project, https://franklincountypa.gov/index.php?section=archives_WU, accessed 15 August 2024; "Will of Humphrey Fullerton, yeoman, late of Antrim Township, Franklin County, PA," Written 15 December 1791. Probated 31 January 1792, https://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?387,543506, accessed 15 August 2024.
- Slaveholder Name Gass, William
City or Township Guilford Township
Occupation Fuller
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phill
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 27 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 31 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phillis
Age: 24
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 27 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 31 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phillip
Age: 10
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 27 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 31 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nail
Age: 10
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 27 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 31 July 2024.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
Age: 4
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 27 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 31 July 2024.
- Slaveholder Name Gordon, Henry
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
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 31 July 2024;
- Slaveholder Name: Hayes, William
City or Township: Peters Township
County: Franklin
Occupation:Farmer
Notes: Name also spelled "Hays." Hayes is identified as the enslaver of Castile Wright, captured and imprisoned in Harrisburg as an escaped slave. Wright himself made the claim to jailer John McChesney.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
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 31 July 2024;
- Enslaved Person Names: Names not given in ad
Sex: Female
Age: Not given in ad, but described as "girls."
Date of Birth: Not known
Status: Slaves to age 28
Description: "Negro Girls"
Notes: Advertised for public sale as part of the estate of William Hayes. Text of advertisement:
PUBLIC SALE.
WILL be exposed to public sale, on Wednesday the 10th of October next, at the late dwelling house of William Hayes, deceased, in Peters township, Franklin county, the following articles, viz Horses, Cows, Sheep, Hogs, one Waggon and Geers; Wheat, Rye and Oats by the bushel, and Corn in the field; Farming Utensils, a quantity of Household and Kitchen Furniture, with a variety of articles too tedious to mention. Also, the time of two Negro Girls. The sale to begin at 10 o'clock, where due attendance and reasonable credit will be given by
JAMES BUCHANAN, SAMUEL HAYES, Executors.
September 24th, 1804.
Date of Record: 24 September 1804
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg, PA), 25 September 1804.
- Slaveholder Name Herron, James
City or Township Lurgan Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Cuff
Age: 07a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Description: "Boy"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Richard
Age: 18a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Description: Man
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jerry
Age: 15a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
Description: Man
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sall
Age: 12a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Description: Girl
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Precila
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 31 July 2024;
- Slaveholder Name Herron, John
City or Township Lurgan Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jerry
Age: 25
Sex: Male
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 31 July 2024;
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sall
Age: 12
Sex: Female
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 31 July 2024;
- Slaveholder Name Holiday, Adam
City or Township Peter's Township
Occupation
Notes Name also spelled "Holliday." Adam Holliday relocated with his family and enslaved persons to Frankstown Township, Huntingdon County (modern day Blair County), circa 1793.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bill
Age: 40
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Paris
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Description: Mulatto
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Age: 12
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nell
Age: 43
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1737 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record October 12, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Holliday, John
City or Township Fannett Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sambo
Age: 32
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1748 (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: Dine
Age: 34
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1746 (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: Sue
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 31 July 2024;
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sall
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 31 July 2024;
- Enslaved Person's Name: Venus
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: Humphries, David
City or Township: "near Mercersburg"
Occupation:
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
Age: "about 19 years of age"
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: circa 1795
Description: "Negro Man"
Status: Slave to age 28
Notes: Offered for sale in April 1814: "FOR SALE, THE time of a stout healthy NEGRO MAN, who is about 19 years of age, and has to serve until his is 28. Enquire of the subscriber near Mercersburg. DAVID HUMPHRIES. April 26, 1814."
Date of Record 26 April 1814
Source: The Franklin Repository Weekly (Chambersburg, PA), 26 April 1814.
- Slaveholder Name Huston, David
City or Township Peter's Township
Occupation
Notes Registered in 1780 with William Huston and Henry Work.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Description: Negro
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record September 11, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Huston, William
City or Township Peter's Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes Registered in 1780 with David Huston and Henry Work.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phillis
Age: 29
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1751 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record September 11, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Age: 01a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1779-July (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Registration lists "aged about 14 months."
Date of Record September 11, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jacob
Age: 04a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record September 11, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rachell
Age: 07a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record September 11, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
Age: 10a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record September 11, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Description: "Negro"
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record September 11, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Toncy (Tony?)
Age: 12a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Description: "Mulatto"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: A slave "during life."
Date of Record September 11, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
- Slaveholder Name Irwin, Archibald
City or Township Peter's Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Thomas
Age: 35a
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Eneas
Age: 27a
Sex: Undetermined
Date of Birth: 1753 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
Age: 12a
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Description:
Status: Slave for life
Notes:
Date of Record 1780
Source: "Slave Returns Listings"
- Slaveholder Name Irwin, James
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Harry
Age: 25
Sex: Male
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 31 July 2024;
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
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 31 July 2024;
- Slaveholder Name Irwin, John
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phebe
Age: "near seventeen years of age"
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: circa 1791
Description:
Status: Slave for a term of years
Notes: Phebe did not return after four months from a stated trip to visit her mother in September 1807. Irwin placed the following notice in a local newspaper:
FIVE CENTS REWARD.
LEFT the employ of the subscriber, living in Antrim township, Franklin county, on the 26th of September last, a Negro Girl, named Phebe, near seventeen years of age, with an expressed intention of going to see her mother, but has been seduced so as not to return to me.
She had about 14 months to stay with the subscriber, from the time she went away:
This is to forewarn all manner of persons from harboring said Phebe, or countenancing her in any way, as I am determined to prosecute any such person as far as the law will protect me.
JOHN IRWIN.
Jan. 25th, 1808.
Date of Record 25 September 1808
Source: The Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, PA), 26 January 1808.
- Slaveholder Name Irwin, Joseph
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Abram
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 1753 (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 Irwin, William
City or Township Lurgan Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
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 31 July 2024;
- Slaveholder Name Irwin, William Jr.
City or Township Lurgan Township
Occupation
Notes
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nell
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 31 July 2024;
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