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various aspects of enslavement in Pennsylvania

Enslavement in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

Slaveholders Listed on this Page

  1. Ashman, George (Enslaved persons listed: Hercules, Negro Ned, Negro Simon, Negro Moses, Maria, Negro Dab, Phillip)
  2. Blain, John (Enslaved persons listed: Hannah)
  3. Blair, Thomas (Enslaved persons listed: Robert)
  4. Cluggage, Francis (Enslaved persons listed: Dina)
  5. Cluggage, Gavin (Enslaved persons listed: Joseph)
  6. Cluggage, George (Enslaved persons listed: Violet Strickland, Sal)
  7. Cluggage, Robert (Enslaved persons listed: Ham, Joe)
  8. Cromwell, Thomas (Enslaved persons listed: Tom, One unnamed person)
  9. Cryder, Michael (Enslaved persons listed: Rachel, Sam, George)
  10. Davison, Hugh (Enslaved persons listed: Ned)
  11. Foley, James  (Enslaved persons listed: Alexander)
  12. Holliday, William (Enslaved persons listed: Hannah, Mave, Sall)
  13. Lloyd, Henry (Enslaved persons listed: James, Jacob, Phillis, Leah, Sambo, Briget, Cubit, Champion, Phoebe, Diana)
  14. Lowry, Alexander (Enslaved persons listed: Andrew)
  15. McElevy, William (Enslaved persons listed: One unnamed person)
  16. McMaghan, Benjamin (Enslaved persons listed: One unnamed person)
  17. Tell, Lodwick (Enslaved persons listed: Bob, Bill)

Enslavement Data

  • Slaveholder Name: Ashman, George
    City or Township: Shirley Township
    County: Bedford County (this area later became part of Huntingdon County)
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes: Along with Thomas Cromwell, helped build Cromwell, or Bedford Furnace, located in Cromwell Township, in 1785.

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Hercules
      Sex: Male
      Age: "Aged fifty four Years"
      Date of Birth: 1726 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe Man"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    2. Enslaved Person's Name: Negroe Ned
      Sex: Male
      Age: "Aged thirty Years"
      Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    3. Enslaved Person's Name: Negroe Simon
      Sex: Male
      Age: "Aged seventeen Years"
      Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    4. Enslaved Person's Name: Negroe Moses
      Sex: Male
      Age: "Aged thirteen Years"
      Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    5. Enslaved Person's Name: Maria
      Sex: Female
      Age: "Aged forty Years"
      Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe Woman"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    6. Enslaved Person's Name: Negroe Dab
      Sex: Not determined
      Age: "Aged eight Years"
      Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    7. Enslaved Person's Name: Phillip
      Sex: Male
      Age: "Aged two Years three Months and fifteen Days"
      Date of Birth: 1778, July 16 (calculated)
      Status: "a Slave for thirty one years"
      Description: "Mulattoe Boy"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

  • Slaveholder Name: Blain, John
    City or Township:
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation:
    Notes: Sold Hannah to Judge Walker, of Bedford.

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
      Sex: Female
      Age: Not known, but an adult in 1814
      Date of Birth: Not known
      Status: Slave to the age of 28 years (extended four additional years by court order)
      Description: "negress wench" in court documents, and "female mulattoe servant" in the registration of her child, Clara.
      Notes: Mother of Clara, a "female mulattoe child" born 21 August 1814. Mother of Clarissa, born 3 August, 1817. Hannah was purchased in 1812 from John Blain of Huntingdon County, for $72 by Judge Jonathan Walker of Bedford Borough. Judge Walker successfully petitioned the court for a two year extension of the time of servitude for Hannah as a consequence of having given birth to Clara. He subsequently did the same thing following the birth of Clarissa. See the text of court documents, below:
      Documents concerning the birth of Clara:
      To the honable Judge of the court of Quarter Sessions--The Petition of the undersigned himself sheweth that some time in the year 1812 your petitioner purchased a negress wench in Huntingdon County of John Blain of the name of Hannah who was duly recorded as a servant to the age of 28 & paid the full price of $72 for the said wench to the said John Blain as trustee for Wm Galbraith. That the time of service of the said servant has not yet expired. That on or about the 21st day of August last the said Hannah being a single unmarried woman had a bastard female child which is still alive. Your petitioner therefore prays that an order may be made by your Honble court upon the said Hannah to appear forthwith in Court to show cause if any she hath why her time of Servitude should not be enlarged after the expiration of her time of Servitude aforesaid. Not exceeding two years nor less than one according to the provisions of the 7th Section of an Act of the Genl assembly aforesaid of the 1st March 1780 printed in [word unreadable] Titles Fornication & Negroes, as a compensation to your Petitioner for the loss & damages he has sustained by [word unreadable] the said wench having born a bastard child in manner aforesaid in the time of her servitude aforesaid & your Petitioner as is duty bound will ever pray.
      [signed] Jonathan Walker

      5th April 1815 petition read and Rule upon the said Hannah to appear forthwith to shew cause why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted by the Court.
      [signed by clerk]

      April 6th 1815 the said negress appearing before the Court, On hearing the Court order & directs that the within named Negress, shall serve her said master for the time of two years in addition to her present term of service--by reason of the expences incurred, as stated in the within petition.
      [signed by clerk]

      Documents concerning the birth of Clarissa:
      Petition of Jonathan Walker Esq. Nov 5 1817
      November Sessions 1817
      Asking for extension of time of servitude of Hannah.
      (Extracts)
      *Hannah was purchased in Huntingdon County in 1812, of John Blair, trustee for William Galbraith, for $72.
      *The time of servitude of said Hannah had already been extended in April 1815 by two years by the court of Quarter Sessions.
      *That said Hannah, "being a single & unmarried woman had a bastard female child called Clarissa."

      Bedford County[.] Jonathan Walker Esqr being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he served the within copy of a rule of this Court on the within named Hanna, this day by reading the same to her--and further saith that he offered to furnish her with money to employ counsel--to which the said Hannah answered that she believed she would not come into Court that it was unnecessary. Sworn and subscribed in open Court Nov. 1817.

      November 6th 1817 on hearing the Court order & direct that the said Negress Hannah serve her said master the term of two years, in addition to her time."

      Date of Records: (Clara) April Sessions, 1815; (Clarissa) November Sessions 1817
      Source: Bedford County Misc Slave Records Circa 1780-1834

  • Slaveholder Name: Blair, Thomas
    City or Township:
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Robert
      Sex: Male
      Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth: November 1785
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Negro"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 22 December 1800
      Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA,"http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt, accessed 10 October 2006.

  • Slaveholder Name: Cluggage, Francis
    City or Township: Huntingdon Township
    County: Bedford County (this area later became part of Huntingdon County)
    Occupation: Tavern keeper
    Notes:

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Dina
      Sex: Female
      Age: "About eight Years old"
      Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe Girl"
      Notes: Text of Registration: "Huntingdon the 27th Octb. 1780
      Dear Sir
      [word unreadable] I am informed all the Negroes ar to be Recorded against the first of Novbr. if it is so pray hasten a garl of mine Her name is Dina about Eight years old My caling I cant inform you." (source: Bedford County Misc Slave Records Circa 1780-1834)
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

  • Slaveholder Name: Cluggage, Gavin
    City or Township:
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Joseph
      Sex: Male
      Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth: April 1786
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Negro"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 5 January 1789
      Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt, accessed 10 October 2006.

  • Slaveholder Name: Cluggage, George
    City or Township:
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Violet Strickland
      Sex: Female
      Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth: 10 May 1786
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Mulatta"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 30 March 1789
      Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt, accessed 10 October 2006.

    2. Enslaved Person's Name: Sal
      Sex: Female
      Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth: 3 August 1789
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Negro girl"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 30 March 1789
      Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt, accessed 10 October 2006.

  • Slaveholder Name: Cluggage, Robert, Major
    City or Township:
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation:
    Notes: Revolutionary War Officer

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Ham
      Sex: Male
      Age: Not determined
      Date of Birth: Not determined
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negro man"
      Notes: Appears in estate inventory following death of Robert Cluggage in 1787; valued at £100.
      Date of Record: 1787
      Source: "Cluggage family of Huntingdon County PA 1725 forward," posting by John Clancy, Ancestry.com message board, 3 October 2001.

    2. Enslaved Person's Name: Joe
      Sex: Male
      Age: Not determined
      Date of Birth: Not determined
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negro boy"
      Notes: Appears in estate inventory following death of Robert Cluggage in 1787; valued at £15.
      Date of Record: 1787
      Source: "Cluggage family of Huntingdon County PA 1725 forward," posting by John Clancy, Ancestry.com message board, 3 October 2001.

  • Slaveholder Name: Cromwell, Thomas
    City or Township: Shirley Township
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation: Ironmaster; built Bedford Forge (Cromwell Furnace), located in Cromwell Township, Huntingdon County (present day Orbisonia), in 1785.
    Notes: In 1795, Thomas Cromwell of Shirley Township was assessed for private property of 140 acres of land, one horse, one slave and "two pound plate." Cromwell was a wealthy businessman, who was also assessed for his business assets of 2,479 acres of land for his company, sixteen horses, seventeen cows, one gristmill, one sawmill and one furnace.

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Not named
      Sex: Not indicated
      Age: Not indicated
      Date of Birth: Not indicated
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Slave"
      Notes: The 1795 tax assessment for Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, shows Cromwell had property including one slave.
      Date of Record: 1795
      Source: "1795 Tax List, Shirley Township," by Ken Boonie, on Huntingdon County, PA USGenWeb Project, http://www.rootsweb.com/~pahuntin/1795shirley.htm, accessed 10 October 2006.

    2. Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
      Sex: Male
      Age: "about 25 years of age"
      Date of Birth: circa 1769
      Status: Escaped, June 1794
      Description: "Negro Man"
      Notes: Previously owned by William Allison of Greencastle, from whom Tom escaped multiple times. Tom escaped from Bedford Furnace on June 8, 1794. Cromwell placed the following ad in local newspapers to recover him:
      Twenty Dollars Reward.
      RAN-AWAY from the Bedford Furnace on the night of Sunday the 8th instant, a Negro Man named TOM, he is about 25 years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, and well made, has a sour countenance, and a down look, he had on & took with him when he went away a sailors jacket of grey coating, one under vest of striped silk and cotton, a pair of cotton stockings, two new shirts of country linen, one pair of tow linen trousers, a felt hat about half worn, old shoes half soaled, but he may have other cloaths with him of which no doubt he will change.
      He was purchased by the subscriber in April last from Mr. William Allison, near Greencastle, but will most likely direct his course towards Philadelphia or Baltimore, and endeavor to pass for a feeman. Any person apprehending said fellow and securing him in any jail, if within 50 miles shall be entitled to the above reward, and in proportion to any greater or lesser distance, and reasonable expences if brought home.
      THOMAS CROMWELL.
      Bedford Furnace, 9th June, 1794.
      Date of Record: 09 June 1794
      Source: Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette, 18 June 1794.

  • Slaveholder Name: Cryder, Michael
    City or Township: Huntingdon Township
    County:Bedford County (this area later became part of Huntingdon County)
    Occupation: Miller
    Notes: This is the first person listed in the Bedford County slave entry book.

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
      Sex: Female
      Age: "About twenty five & a half Years old"
      Date of Birth: 1755, April (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe Wench"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    2. Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
      Sex: Male
      Age: "About four and a half years old"
      Date of Birth: 1776, April (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Mulattoe Boy"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    3. Enslaved Person's Name: George
      Sex: Male
      Age: "About one year old"
      Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Mulattoe Boy"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

  • Slaveholder Name: Davison, Hugh
    City or Township:
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation: Esquire
    Notes:

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Ned
      Sex: Male
      Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth:  April 1786
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Negro"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 29 March 1789
      Source:  "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt , accessed 10 October 2006.

  • Slaveholder Name: Foley, James
    City or Township:
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Alexander
      Sex: Male
      Slave Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth:  October 1783
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Negro"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: March 1789
      Source:  "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt , accessed 10 October 2006.

  • Slaveholder Name: Holliday, William
    City or Township:
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation:
    Notes:

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
      Sex: Female
      Slave Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth:  25 May 1788
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Mulatto"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 24 October 1788
      Source:  "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt , accessed 10 October 2006.
       
    2. Slave Name: Mave
      Sex: Female
      Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth:  29 September 1795
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Mulatto girl"
      Notes:  Recorded in Quarter Session records as "November Sessions 1795.
      "On the 5th day of December 1795 William Holliday, Sen'r entered on record according to law a Mulatto girl named Mave born on the twenty ninth day of September last of Sall a Negro Woman Slave of the said William Holliday the elder."
      Date of Record: 5 December 1795
      Source:  "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt , accessed 10 October 2006.
       
    3. Slave Name: Sall
      Sex: Female
      Age: Adult ("woman") of child bearing age in 1795
      Date of Birth:  Not known, but before 1795
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negro Woman Slave"
      Notes:  Mother of Mave, born on 29 September 1795.  Recorded in Huntingdon County Quarter Session records as "November Sessions 1795:  "On the 5th day of December 1795 William Holliday, Sen'r entered on record according to law a Mulatto girl named Mave born on the twenty ninth day of September last of Sall a Negro Woman Slave of the said William Holliday the elder."
      Date of Record: 5 December 1795
      Source:  "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt , accessed 10 October 2006.

  • Slaveholder Name: Lloyd, Henry
    City or Township: Huntingdon Township
    County: Bedford County (this area later became part of Huntingdon County)
    Occupation: Farmer
    Notes: Lloyd's original 1780 Registration reads as follows:
    To Mr. David Espy Co Clk
    Sir I desire you wold be pleasd To Enter my Negroes in your Dockt. acording to the act of asembly
    I have five Gown Negroes and two young ones to wit Molatoes. No more to [word unreadable] but remane yor Very humble svt.
    Hen Lloyd
    Huntingdon october 27 1780
    Sambo about 50 James about 32 years
    Jacob about 20 philis about 40
    Leah a molatoe about 24
    Briget about 2 years old
    Cubit an infant 1 Day old
    Source: Bedford County Misc Slave Records Circa 1780-1834 For an image of this letter of Registration, click here.

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: James
      Sex: Male
      Age: "About thirty two Years old"
      Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe Man"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    2. Enslaved Person's Name: Jacob
      Sex: Male
      Age: "About twenty Years old"
      Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe Man"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    3. Enslaved Person's Name: Phillis
      Sex: Female
      Age: "About forty Years old"
      Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe Woman"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    4. Enslaved Person's Name: Leah
      Sex: Female
      Age: "About twenty one Years old"
      Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Mulattoe Woman"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    5. Enslaved Person's Name: Sambo
      Sex: Male
      Age: "About fifty Years old"
      Date of Birth: 1730 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Negroe Man"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    6. Enslaved Person's Name: Briget
      Sex: Female
      Age: "About two Years old"
      Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Mulattoe Girl"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    7. Enslaved Person's Name: Cubit
      Sex: Male
      Age: "About one Day old"
      Date of Birth: 27 October, 1780
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Mulattoe Boy"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
      Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

    8. Enslaved Person's Name: Champion
      Sex:  Not determined
      Slave Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth:  December 1788
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Yellow Negro"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 30 March 1789
      Source:  "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt , accessed 10 October 2006.

    9. Enslaved Person's Name: Phoebe
      Sex:  Female
      Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth:  June 1787
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Negro"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 30 March 1789
      Source:  "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt , accessed 10 October 2006.

    10. Enslaved Person's Name: Diana
      Sex:  Female
      Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth:  June 1785
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Negro"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: 30 March 1789
      Source:  "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt , accessed 10 October 2006.

  • Slaveholder Name: Lowry, Alexander
    City or Township: Frankstown Township
    County: Huntingdon
    Occupation:
    Notes:

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Andrew
      Sex: Male
      Age: Two months old at Registration
      Date of Birth: August 21, 1795
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Negro male child"
      Notes: Registerd in 1795 in Lancaster County by Col. Alexander Lowry. Registration notes "son of negro Jane," a female slave. Ownership of Andrew was transferred to Alexander Lowry, of Frankstown, Huntingdon County, sometime before 1819. He ran away from his new owner on Christmas Day, 1818. Alexander Lowry, of Frankstown ran the following ad to reclaim Andrew:
      30 Dollars Reward.
      RAN away from the subscriber, living in Frankstown township, Huntingdon conty, Pa. on Saturday the 25th of December last, a Mulatto man named
      ANDREW.
      He is either 23 or 24 years of age, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, clumsy made, his nose very much scarred and broken in by a kick of a horse when young. Had on when he went away, a pair of black thick cloth pantaloons and a coat nearly the same colour, a tow shirt and a wool hat half worn. He is very fond of spiritous liquors, was born in Lancaster county, near Maytown, his former master was Col. Alexander Lowry, deceased, who lived between Maytown and Anderson's Ferry, his mother also belonged to Col. Lowry--she may be still living and probably he has gone in that neighborhood in search of her, or to Lampeter township, in the neighborhood of Messars. Denlinger and Brua. He is recorded in the Lancaster Recording Office. The above reward and all reasonable charges will be paid to any person or persons for apprehending him and confining him in the Jail of the county where he may be taken. Information for the subscriber will be thankfully received.
      ALEXANDER LOWRY
      Frankstown, Jan. 21.
      Date of Record: 21 January 1819
      Sources: "A RECORD of the returns made in writing and delivered to me…"; Lancaster Journal, 29 January 1819.

  • Slaveholder Name: McElevy, William
    City or Township: Barree Township
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation:
    Notes: In 1793, William McElevy, of Barree Township, was assessed for 300 acres of land, three horses, eight cows, two distilleries and one slave.

    1. Slave Name: Not named
      Sex: Not indicated
      Age: Not indicated
      Date of Birth: Not indicated
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Slave"
      Notes:  The 1793 tax assessment for Barree Township, Huntingdon County, shows property including one slave.
      Date of Record: 1793
      Source:  "1793 Tax List, Barree Township," by Ken Boonie, on Huntingdon County, PA USGenWeb Project, http://www.rootsweb.com/~pahuntin/1793barree.htm, accessed 10 October 2006.

  • Slaveholder Name: McMaghan, Benjamin
    City or Township: Barree Township
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation:
    Notes: In 1793, Benjamin McMaghan, of Barree Township, was assessed for 100 acres of land, one horse, one slave and one distillery.

    1. Slave Name: Not named
      Sex: Not indicated
      Age: Not indicated
      Date of Birth: Not indicated
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Slave"
      Notes:  The 1793 tax assessment for Barree Township, Huntingdon County, shows property including one slave.
      Date of Record: 1793
      Source:  "1793 Tax List, Barree Township," by Ken Boonie, on Huntingdon County, PA USGenWeb Project, http://www.rootsweb.com/~pahuntin/1793barree.htm, accessed 10 October 2006.

  • Slaveholder Name: Tell, Lodwick
    City or Township:
    County: Huntingdon County
    Occupation:
    Notes: The following note appears in court quarter session records: "A few days after the first day of April 1789, application was made by Lodwick Tell to have two mulatto children entered on record, declaring that one named Bob was born in March 1787, The other named Bill, born 24 Dec.1788, now the property of the said Lodwick Tell."

    1. Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
      Sex: Male
      Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth:  March 1787
      Slave Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Mulatto"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: April 1789
      Source:  "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt , accessed 10 October 2006.

    2. Enslaved Person's Name: Bill
      Sex: Male
      Age: Infant at registration
      Date of Birth:  24 December 1788
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Mulatto"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: April 1789
      Source:  "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt , accessed 10 October 2006.

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