Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Kapp, Michael (Slaves listed: Dinah)
- Kean, John (Slaves listed: Charlotte)
- Keefer, Andrew (Slaves listed: Peter)
- Kelly, James (Slaves listed: one unnamed
slave)
- Kelso, Elizabeth (Slaves listed: Hannah)
- Kelso, John (Slaves listed: George, Peter)
- Kelso, William (Slaves listed: Will, Peter, Dina, Sib)
- Kelso, William, Jr. (Slaves listed: 1 "Black boy" and 1 "Mulatto Girl")
- Kerr, William (Slaves listed: Hannah, Tom, Dinah)
- King, Thomas (Slaves listed: York)
- Kirkpatrick, William (Slaves listed: Richard)
- Lee, Andrew (Slaves listed: Hannah, Ellis, Becky)
- Libhart, Jacob (Slaves listed: William Boan)
- Logan, John (Slaves listed: Sampson, London)
- Lycan, Andrew (Slaves listed: Un-named man)
- Martin, Samuel (Slaves listed: Un-named Woman)
- McAllister, Archibald (Slaves listed: Judy, Mary, Daniel, Charles, Andrew, James, Tyra, Hettie Gray, Lucy Craig, Hallie Jenkins, James Craig, Jack Jenkins, Maria Murry, Eliza Creag, Jack, George Hoofnagle, Ned, Isaac, Jem, Sally Craig, Nance, Cato)
- McClure, Jonathan (Slaves listed: Dinah)
- McClure, Roan (Slaves listed: Kate)
- McGuire, Richard (Slaves listed: Tob, Pete)
- McKee, Isabella (Slaves listed: Harriet, Hannah)
- McKee, James (Slaves listed: George, Bess, Isaac, Hannah, Paulina, George(2))
- McKee, Thomas (Slaves listed: Un-named Man)
- McKinney, Mordecai (Slaves listed: Dick)
- McQueen, David (Slaves listed: Jack, Phillis, Dina, Muzeta, Sampson, Lot)
- McCown, John (Slaves listed: Andy a.k.a. Sharper)
- Metzgar, Martin (Slaves listed: Charlotte)
- Minshall, Thomas (Slaves listed: Jugg, Kate, Dan, Phebe)
- Mitchele, Alexander W. (Slaves listed: Fleming Mitchele)
- Montgomery, David (Slaves listed: Bob, Catherine, Joseph, Eff, Isaac)
- Montgomery, Joseph (Slaves listed: Tom, Margaret)
- Moore, William (Slaves listed: Maria, Sampson)
- Neidig, John (Slaves listed: John Stewart)
- Nelson, Henry (Slaves listed: Charles Barrick)
- Noble, John (Slaves listed: Tom)
Enslavement Data
- Owner's Surname: Kapp
Owner's First Name: Michael
Owner's City: Harrisburg
Owner's Township:
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 197
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Dinah
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Owner's Surname: Kean
Owner's First Name: John
Owner's City: Harrisburg
Owner's Township:
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 349
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Charlotte
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Owner's Surname: Keefer
Owner's First Name: Andrew
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: West Hanover
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 201
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Peter
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
Owner's Surname: Kelly
Owner's First Name: James
Owner's Township: Londonderry
Owner's County: Dauphin
(then Lancaster)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo: Kelly did not register any slaves in Lancaster County
in 1780. If he was assessed for one slave in 1780, he may have moved
or sold the slave prior to the deadline for registration.
- Slave Given Name: Not recorded
Slave Sex: Not recorded
Slave Age (Years): ? (taxable slaves were usually considered those
between 12 and 60 years of age)
Date of Registry or Record:
1780
Slave Memo: Tax return for 1780 report one slave owned by James
Kelly of Londonderry Township
Source:
Luther Reily Kelker, History of Dauphin County,
Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907) p.
388.
- Owner's Surname: Kelso
Owner's First Name: Elizabeth
Owner's City: Harrisburg
Owner's Township:
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Widow
Owner--Memo: Widow of Dr. Joseph Kelso, who was the son of William Kelso, Sr. From the will of Elizabeth Kelso.
- Counter: 394
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Hannah
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record: 04/02/1818
Slave Memo: Status: Manumitted upon having "served her time," and lived with her former owners. The will states that "the colored girl, 'Hannah,' who served her time and now lives with me..." shall receive "all my common wearing apparel, the small bed made of feathers and flocks with the bedding," and fifty dollars in cash.
Source: Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth (Gailbraith) Kelso, Widow of Dr. Joseph Kelso, dated April, 2nd, 1818
- Owner's Surname: Kelso
Owner's First Name: John
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Lower Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo: See biographical sketch
- Counter: 259
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: George
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 273
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Peter
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Owner's Surname: Kelso
Owner's First Name: William
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin
(Lancaster, at time of 1780 registration)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Farmer
Owner--Memo: See biographical sketch
- Counter: 31
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Will
Slave Gender: Male
Slave Age (Years): 18
Date of Registry or Record: October 2, 1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life. Described at registration as
"Negroe Man." Registered in Lancaster. Possible runaway. This slave is listed in Cumberland County court records. In 1789 he was indicted for theft: "Negro Will, slave to William Kelso, stole 23.12.9 from John Carver of York Co. Test: George Kruss, John Chambers (May 22)" ("Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania." Merri Lou Scribner Schaumann, item 1368) This item shows that Kelso, who maintained houses in both Dauphin and Cumberland counties, used his slaves in both locations. See the Cumberland County listing for William Kelso, Jr. for more information about Will.
In a document dated 27 August, 1789, Kelso reported the escape of Will.
Sources: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 32
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Peter
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 04
Date of Registry or Record: 10/2/1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life. Described at registration as
"Mulatto Boy." Registered in Lancaster.
Sources: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 33
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Dinah
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 28
Date of Registry or Record: 10/2/1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Described at registration as "Negroe Wench." Registered in Lancaster.
Sources: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 34
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Sib
(or Lib)
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 01
Date of Registry or Record: 10/2/1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Described at registration as "Negro Child." Registered in Lancaster.
Sources: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Owner's Surname: Kelso
Owner's First Name: William, Jr.
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: East Pennsboro
Owner's County: Cumberland
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo: Estate sale of William Kelso, deceased, of
East Pennsboro Twp. The estate inventory, dated 3 June, 1807, lists the following slaves:
The term of servitude of a Black boy--value $50.00
The term of servitude of a Mulatto girl--value $30.00. The girl was listed among items "taken by the Widow" (Elizabeth [Chambers] Kelso).
(Source 37).
See also the listing for William Kelso Jr. on the Cumberland County pages.
- Counter: 388
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: ?
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ? ("boy")
Date of Registry or Record: 6/16/1807
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28. The estate inventory of William Kelso Jr., dated 3 June, 1807, lists the following slaves:
The term of servitude of a Black boy--value $50.00
The term of servitude of a Mulatto girl--value $30.00. The girl was listed among items "taken by the Widow" (Elizabeth [Chambers] Kelso).
(Source 37).
Source: 30
- Counter: 388
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: ?
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ? ("girl")
Date of Registry or Record: 6/03/1807
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28. The estate inventory of William Kelso Jr., dated 3 June, 1807, lists the following slaves:
The term of servitude of a Black boy--value $50.00
The term of servitude of a Mulatto girl--value $30.00. The girl was listed among items "taken by the Widow" (Elizabeth [Chambers] Kelso).
Source: 37
- Owner's Surname: Kerr
Owner's First Name: William
Owner's Township: Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin
(Lancaster, at time of 1780 registration)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Farmer
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 236
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Hannah
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 41
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Tom
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 17
Date of Registry or Record: 10/5/1780
Slave Memo: Status: "Slave during life." Described as "Negroe
Boy" in registration. Registered at Lancaster.
Sources: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 42
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Dina
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 18
years old "or thereabouts"
Date of Registry or Record: 10/5/1780
Slave Memo: Status: "Slave during life." Described as "Negroe
Wench" in registration. Registered at Lancaster.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
- Owner's Surname: King
Owner's First Name: Thomas
Owner's Township: Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin
(Lancaster, at time of 1780 registration)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo: There is a Thomas King buried in Newside Cemetery, Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County. This is probably the same person.
- Counter: 114
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: York
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 16
Date of Registry or Record: 10/25/1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Boy," 16 years of age, "a slave."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Owner's Surname: Kirkpatrick
Owner's First Name: William
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin
(Lancaster, at time of 1780 registration)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Gentleman
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 30
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Richard
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 27
years old "or thereabouts"
Date of Registry or Record: September 30, 1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Described as "Negroe Man" at registration. Registered in Lancaster.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Owner's Surname: Lee
Owner's First Name: Andrew
Owner's City: Harrisburg
Owner's Township:
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 284
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Hannah
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 312
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Ellis
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 321
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Becky
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Owner's Surname: Libhart
Owner's First Name: Jacob
Owner's City: Harrisburg
Owner's Township:
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Slave Surname, if known: Boan
Slave Given Name: William
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): "between 14 and 15 years of age"
Date of Registry or Record: 17 July 1839
Slave Memo: Status: bound for a term of years. Ran away in June 1839. Text of runaway ad is below:
$5 REWARD.
RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 17th of June last, a bound mulatto boy, rather dark named WILLIAM BOAN, between 14 and 15 years of age. He was employed as a cabin-boy on board of one of the Express Line of Packet boats on the Penn'a Canal. He had on when he left, a pair of cord velvet pantaloons, a brown-holland roundabout, and a net worsted cap. The above reward will be given for his apprehension, but no charges paid. the public are cautioned against trusting or harbouring the above boy.
JACOB LIBHART, Jr.
Harrisburg, July 17, 1839.
Source: Pennsylvania Republican (York, PA), 17 July 1839
- Owner's Surname: Logan
Owner's First Name: John
Owner's Township: Londonderry
Owner's County: Dauphin
(Lancaster, at time of 1780 registration)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Farmer
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 123
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Sampson
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): about 24
years old at registration
Date of Registry or Record: 10/26/1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Registered at Lancaster as a "Mulattoe Slave, age about 24 years."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 124
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: London
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): about 21
years old at registration
Date of Registry or Record: 10/26/1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Slave, age about 21 years."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Owner's Surname: Lycan
Owner's First Name: Andrew
Owner's Location: Lykens and Wiconisco
Owner's Township:
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Farmer
Owner--Memo: Earliest settler in this region, giving his name to the area.
-
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: No name recorded
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age: "Man"
Slave Status: Slave for life.
Slave Description: "Negro Man"
Date of Record: March 18, 1756
Slave Memo: Mentioned in an account of an attack by hostile Indians:
By a Letter from Hanover Township, in Lancaster County,
dated the Eighth Instant, there is Advice, that the Morning
before Andrew Lycan, who lived over the Mountains, was
attacked by the Indians. He had with him his Son John Lycan, a
Negro Man, and a Boy, and two of his Neighbours, John Revalt,
and Ludwig Shut: That Andrew Lycan, and John Revalt went out
early that Morning to fodder their Creatures, when two Guns
were fired at them, but did not hurt them; upon which they ran
into the House, and prepared themselves for an Engagement:
That then the Indians got under Cover of a Hog house, near the
Dwelling house, and John Lycan, Revalt and Shut, crept out of
the House, in order to get a Shot at them, but were fired at
by five Indians, and all wounded, Lycan through the Hand and
Thigh, Revalt in the Shoulder, and Shut in the Belly: That
Andrew saw one of the Indians over the Hog house, named Joshua
James, fired at him, and killed him; and also saw two white
Men run out of the Hog house, and get a little Distance from
it: That upon this our People endeavoured to escape, but were
pursued by the Indians, to the Number of Sixteen, or upwards,
and John Lycan and Revalt being badly wounded, were able to do
nothing, so went off with the Negroe, and left Andrew Lycan,
Shut, and the Boy, engaged with the Indians: That the Enemy
pursued so close, that one of them came up to the Bay, and was
going to strike his Tomahawk into him, when Shut turned, and
shot him dead, and Andrew Lycan shot another, and is positive
he killed him, saw a third fall, and thinks they wounded some
more of them: That they being now both ill wounded, and almost
spent, they sat down on a log to rest themselves, and the
Indians stood a little Way off looking at them: That one of
the Indians killed was Bill Davis, and two others they knew to
be Tom Hickman, and Tom Hayes, all Delawares, and well known
in these Parts: That our Men got all into Hanover Township,
are under the Care of a Doctor, and likely to do well, but
have lost all they were worth: And that the People of that
Township were raising a Number of Men to go after the Enemy.
The above People lived about 25 Miles below Shamokin, at or
near Wikinesko Creek.
The account above graphically describes how African American slaves faced the same dangers on the frontier that white settlers did.
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, March 18, 1756
- Owner's Surname: Martin
Owner's First Name: Samuel
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: ???
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 18
Date of Registry or Record: February 8, 1770
Slave Memo: Status: Runaway. "formerly the property of Mr. Samuel Kennedy, near the Cross roads"
Source: 55
- Owner's Surname: McAllister
Owner's First Name: Archibald
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Susquehanna
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo: The McAllister family was the largest slaveholding family in Dauphin County. Their home was the
Fort Hunter mansion and estate in Susquehanna Township. Archibald was the son of Richard McAllister, of Hanover, York County. Richard bequeathed two slaves for life, Cato and Cato's son Jack, to Archibald upon his death in August, 1795.
Archibald McAllister registered five slaves in the town of Lancaster on
September 11, 1780, in accordance with the Gradual Abolition Act of 1780.
His residence was listed as "London Derry Township," and his occupation was
recorded as "Gentleman." The five slaves, all described as "slave for
life," were Ned, age 52, Isaac, age 20, Jem, age 8, Nance, age 10 and Sal
age 14.
- Counter: 195
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Judy
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 196
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Mary
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 255
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Daniel
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 263
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Charles
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 269
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Andrew
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28. Could be Andrew
Craig, 1795-1863, buried in the "Black Cemetery" near Fort Hunter. (source 34)
See the separate page about this burial
ground for photographs of these graves.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 271
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: James
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 281
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Tyra
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 293
Slave Surname, if known: Gray
Slave Given Name: Hetty
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 308
Slave Surname, if known: Craig
Slave Given Name: Lucy
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 313
Slave Surname, if known: Jenkins
Slave Given Name: Hallie
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 318
Slave Surname, if known: Craig
Slave Given Name: James
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 327
Slave Surname, if known: Jenkins
Slave Given Name: Jack
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 334
Slave Surname, if known: Murry
Slave Given Name: Maria
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 337
Slave Surname, if known: Creag
Slave Given Name: Eliza
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 361
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Jack
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Son of Cato, also a slave with McAllister. From the will of Archibald McAllister's father:
"I also give and bequeath unto my son Archibald McAllister and to his heirs and assigns two of my negroes named Cato, and his son Jack, who being slaves during life." --from Fort Hunter Tour, Harrisburg, PA.
Status: Slave for life.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
- Counter: 358
Slave Surname, if known: Hoofnagle
Slave Given Name: George
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record: 8/29/1825
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28. This slave was the last to be registered in Dauphin County.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 2
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Ned
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 52
Slave Date of Birth: 1728 (calculated)
Date of Registry or Record: September 11, 1780
Slave Status: Slave for life; described at registration as a "Negroe
Male." Registered in Lancaster.
Slave Memo: This may be the person identified as Nat or Nate in later lists of slaves in the county. A July 1800 list of slaves in Lower Paxton Township (which included Fort Hunter at the time) shows a slave named Nate, age 60 years, with Archibald McAllister. Ned's age would have been 72, but McAllister also reported incorrect ages for both of his other slaves named in that list.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780 | Tax Lists, Inhabitants and Slaves, 1800, 1807
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 3
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Isaac
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 20
Date of Registry or Record: September 11, 1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life; described at registration as a
"Negroe Male." Registered in Lancaster.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 4
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Jem
Slave Gender: Male
Slave Age (Years): 08
Date of Registry or Record: September 11, 1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life; described at registration as a
"Negroe Male." Registered in Lancaster.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 5
Slave Surname, if known: Craig (Pennsylvania Reporter and Democratic Herald)
Slave Given Name: Sal(ly)
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 14
Slave Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Date of Registry or Record: September 11, 1780
Slave Status: Slave for life--Runaway
Slave Memo: Described at registration as a "Negroe Female."
Registered in Lancaster.Sally is listed in a July 1800 list of slaves in Dauphin County, with an estimated age of 40 years. She was actually younger than that. Sally, along with several other slaves, was offered for sale in December of 1828, at age 62, and ran away on the 19th of December, 1828. (Source information from a telephone interview with Carl Dickson, Director of Fort Hunter, on October 16, 1990.) Text of ads:
"THE TIME OF COLORED PEOPLE FOR SALE.
I wish to dispose of all my colored people at private sale:--One female slave, aged about sixty one years, strong and active of her age, she is an excellent washer, baker and cook, and understands the management of a dairy, and soap boiling.
ALSO, a female aged about twenty years, has eight years to serve; she understands all kind of house work, and is stout and healthy.
ALSO, a male aged about twenty four years, has four years to serve, remarkably stout and healthy, and understands all kinds of farming whatever.
ALSO, a female aged twenty two years, has six years to serve, stout and healthy, understands all kind of house work, a good cook and ironer; in short, she understands every kind of work that belongs to a respectable family.
Archibald M'Allister. December 9." (Pennsylvania Reporter and Democratic Herald, December 9, 1828)
"ADVERTISEMENT.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber at Fort Hunter, six miles above Harrisburg on the 19th instant, a female slave, named Sall Crage, aged about 60. I hereby forewarn all persons from harboring her, and will pay $2 to any person who will deliver her to me at Fort Hunter.
Archibald M'Allister. December 24, 1828." (Pennsylvania Reporter and Democratic Herald, December 28, 1828. This ad ran through February, 1829.)
Sally Craig was never recovered by McAllister, who also failed to sell all of his slaves by the time financial problems forced the sale of his assets at a sheriff s sale in 1829. At least one slave was listed among his assets.
Sources: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780 | Tax Lists, Inhabitants and Slaves, 1800, 1807
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 6
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Nance
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 10
Slave Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Date of Registry or Record: September 11, 1780
Slave Status: Slave for life
Slave Memo: Described at registration as a "Negroe Female."
Registered in Lancaster.Nance was included in a July 1800 list of slaves in Lower Paxton Township (which included Fort Hunter at the time) as belonging to Archibald McAllister. McAllister reported her age to be 35 years old in 1800, overestimating by five years. He reported incorrect ages for the other two slaves listed with him as well.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780 | Tax Lists, Inhabitants and Slaves, 1800, 1807
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 360
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Cato
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Cato had a son, named Jack, also a slave.
Status of both: Slaves for life. From the will of Archibald McAllister's father:
"I also give and bequeath unto my son Archibald McAllister and to his heirs and assigns two of my
negroes named Cato, and his son Jack, who being slaves during life." --from Fort Hunter Tour, Harrisburg, PA.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
- Owner's Surname: McClure
Owner's First Name: Jonathan
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 169
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Dinah
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Owner's Surname: McClure
Owner's First Name: Roan
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Whitedeer
Owner's County: Northumberland
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 366
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Kate
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 29
Slave Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Date of Registry or Record: September 26, 1801
Slave Status: Runaway
Slave Memo: "Raised by capt. Crouch deceased late of Paxton."
See Crouch, James for what I believe is the record of Kate's 1780 registration as "Ket".
Text of ad: "Thirty Dollars Reward. Ran away from the subscriber living in Whitedeer township Northumberland county, on the night of the 23rd inst. September a Negro Wench named Kate, about 29 years of age, had on and took with her a black wool hat, two calico, two stripped, and one white muslin shortgown, three stripped linsey, one white muslin and one green stuff petticoat, three shifts, one pair high heeled shoes, one pair calfskin and one pair calimanco slippers; and sundry other cloathes unknown. She is of a black complexion, middle size, and wants her foreteeth, and was raised by capt. Crouch deceased late of Paxton. She was seduced away by a negro man who calls himself EDWARD ROBERTS, of a swarthy complexion and has worked some time in the neighborhood and says he is free. Had on a deep blue cloth coat a pair of royal ribb'd overalls a pair of cotton stockings and good shoes talks good English and is very artful and cunning, has said he designed going towards the Gennessee. It is supposed they will pass for man and wife as she is with child to him. Whoever takes up said Wench and Negroe man and secures them in any jail in the State of Pennsylvania so that the subscriber may get the Wench and the Negroe man be convicted, shall recieve the above reward, or fifteen dollars for the Wench and all reasonable charges paid by
ROAN McCLURE. September 26, 1801."
Source: The Farmer's Instructor, and Harrisburgh Courant, October 21, 1801
- Owner's Surname: McCown
Owner's First Name: John
Owner's Township: Hanover
Owner's County: Dauphin
(Lancaster, at the time of the 1780 registration)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Farmer
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 162
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Andy
a.k.a. Sharper
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 27
Date of Registry or Record: 11/1/1780
Slave Memo: Registration notes name as "Andy, alias
Sharper."
Status: Slave for life.
Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Man."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Owner's Surname: McGuire
Owner's First Name: Richard
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin (Lancaster, at time of registration)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Blacksmith
Owner--Memo: McGuire apparently traveled to Lancaster along with
two other local men to register slaves. The county clerk recorded
their slaves as follows: "John Wiggins, Robert Gilchrist, farmers, and
Richard McGuire, blacksmith, of Paxton T, enters as owners" Nance, Negroe
Wench, about nine years of age, slave during life; Dick, Negroe Boy, about
seven years of age, slave for life; Tob, Negroe Man, eighteen years of age,
slave during life, and Peet, Negroe Boy, ten years of age, slave during
life.The clerk did not indicate who owned which slaves, but it was
customary to list slaves by descending age, males first, followed by females
in descending age order. Using that custom as an indicator, it was
possible to make a guess as to who held which slaves.
- Counter: 62
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Tob
Slave Gender:
Slave Age (Years): 18
Date of Registry or Record: 10/12/1780
Slave Memo: Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Man," eighteen
years of age, a "slave during life."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 63
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Pete
(Registered as Peet)
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 10
Date of Registry or Record: 10/12/1780
Slave Memo: Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Boy," ten years of age,
a "slave during life."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Owner's Surname: McKee
Owner's First Name: Isabella
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Derry
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
Counter: 346
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Harriet
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 347
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Hannah
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Owner's Surname: McKee
Owner's First Name: James
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 190
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: George
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 191
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Bess
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 192
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Isaac
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 43
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Hannah
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): about 25
years old at registration
Date of Registry or Record: 10/9/1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Described at registration as "Negroe Woman." Registered at Lancaster.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 44
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Paulina
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 03
Date of Registry or Record: 10/9/1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Described at registration as "Mulatto Girl." Registered at Lancaster
"as a slave."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 45
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: George
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): Six months old at registration.
Date of Registry or Record: 10/9/1780
Slave Memo: infant; Status: Slave for life.
Described at registration as "Mulatto Boy." Registered at Lancaster
"as a slave."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Owner's Surname: McKee
Owner's First Name: Thomas
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: Pennsylvania
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
-
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: ?
Slave Gender: Male
Slave Age (Years): 26a
Date of Registry or Record: May 13, 1762
Slave Memo: Status: Runaway. Text of runaway ad: "RUN AWAY on the 3d Inst. from the Subscriber, living in Paxton, Lancaster County, A Negroe Man, about 26 Years of Age, 5 Feet 6 Inches high, a well set thick Fellow: Had on when he went away, A Blanket Coat, white Shirt, old knit Breeches, grey Yarn Stockings, old Shoes, a Worsted Cap, and an old Hat; he has with him a Linen Wallet, with sundry Things in it not known.
Whoever takes up and secures said Negroe, so that his Master may have him again (if taken out of this County) shall receive Forty Shillings Reward, and reasonable Charges, paid
by THOMAS McKEE."
Note that the location "Paxton [township], Lancaster County" refers to a region in present day Dauphin County.
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, May 13, 1762; source list number 101
- Owner's Surname: McKinney
Owner's First Name: Mordecai
Owner's City: Middletown
Owner's Township:
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Farmer
Owner--Memo: Father of attorney Mordecai McKinney, who defended
numerous fugitive slaves in the 1850's in Harrisburg.
- Counter: 228
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Dick
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Owner's Surname: McQueen
Owner's First Name: David
Owner's Township: Londonderry
Owner's County: Dauphin
(Lancaster, at time of 1780 registration)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Farmer
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 132
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Jack
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 26
Date of Registry or Record: 10/30/1780
Slave Memo: Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Man," 26 years old, a
"slave during life."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 133
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Philis
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 25
Date of Registry or Record: 10/30/1780
Slave Memo: Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Woman," 25 years old, a
"slave during life."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 134
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Dina
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 11
Date of Registry or Record: 10/30/1780
Slave Memo: Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Woman," 11 years old, a
"slave during life."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 135
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Muzeta
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 09
Date of Registry or Record: 10/30/1780
Slave Memo: Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Boy," 9 years old, a
"slave during life."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 136
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Sampson
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 07
Date of Registry or Record: 10/30/1780
Slave Memo: Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Boy," 7 years old, a
"slave during life."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 137
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Lot
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 04
Date of Registry or Record: 10/30/1780
Slave Memo: Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Boy," 4 years old, a
"slave during life."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Owner's Surname: Metzgar
Owner's First Name: Martin
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Londonderry
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Charlotte
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 15
Slave Date of Birth: 1813 (calculated)
Date of Registry or Record: 11/22/1828
Slave Status: Runaway servant or slave (slave to age 28).
Slave Memo: Text of runaway advertisement:
6c reward for Charlotte (15). Ran away from Martin Metzgar of Londonderry twp. on 27 Sept.
Note the contrast between the ridiculously small reward offer and the cost of the ads, which was one dollar for three consecutive ads. Metzgar s offer of six cents reward seems to be little more than a token amount. Perhaps he was not really interested in recovering Charlotte.
Source: Harrisburg Argus, November 22, 1828
- Owner's Surname: Minshall
Owner's First Name: Thomas
Owner's Township: "Paxtang"
Owner's County: Dauphin (Lancaster, at time of registration)
Owner's Occupation: Farmer
Owner--Memo:
-
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Jugg
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 31
Slave Date of Birth: 1749
Date of Registry or Record: October 01, 1780
Slave Status: Slave for life
Slave Memo: Described in 1780 slave registration at Lancaster as "Negro woman." This slave is also listed an 1800 list of slaves in Swatara Township, as "Jug," a 40 year-old female slave, and in an 1807 list for the same township as "Jug a female about 60" years.
Sources: "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780." | Tax Lists, Inhabitants and Slaves, 1800, 1807
- Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Kate
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 14
Slave Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Date of Registry or Record: October 01, 1780
Slave Status: Slave for life. Registered at Lancaster.
Slave Memo: Described in 1780 slave registration as "Negro girl."
Source: "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780."
- Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Dan
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 10
Slave Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Date of Registry or Record: 10/1/1780
Slave Status: Slave for life. Registered at Lancaster.
Slave Memo: Described in 1780 slave registration as "Negro boy."
Source: "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780."
- Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Phebe
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 06
Slave Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Date of Registry or Record: October 01, 1780
Slave Status: Slave for life
Slave Memo: Described in 1780 slave registration at Lancaster as "Negro girl." This person shows up in an 1800 list of slaves in Swatara Township as "Feby," a female slave, 24 years old. She does not show up in a subsequent list of slaves for that township in 1807.
Sources: "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780." | Tax Lists, Inhabitants and Slaves, 1800, 1807
- Owner's Surname: Mitchele
Owner's First Name: Alexander W.
Owner's City: Philadelphia
Owner's Township:
Owner's County:
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Physician
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 362
Slave Surname, if known: Mitchele
Slave Given Name: Fleming
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 20 (or more)
Date of Registry or Record: 8/1/1837
Slave Memo: Emancipated by owner in 1837. Original emancipation paper: "Philadelphia
1st Augt. 1837. This is to certify that the bearer here of Fleming Mitchele, who was born a Slave in my father's house...Hereby is Emancipated + is a free man, honest, Sober + a man of Truth: he having lived with us for more than twenty years.------Alex. W. Mitchele M.D."
A photograph of "General" Fleming Mitchell appears on page 43 of Harrisburg,
by Linda A. Ries (Arcadia, 2000).
Source: Emancipation Papers of Fleming Mitchele
- Owner's Surname: Montgomery
Owner's First Name: David
Owner's Township: Lower Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 265
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Bob
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 314
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Catherine
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Counter: 75
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Joseph
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 26
Slave Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Slave Status: Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Man," 26 years of
age, a "slave during life."
Date of Registry or Record: 10/12/1780
Slave Memo: This slave does not appear with Montgomery in either the 1800 Septennial Census, or a July 1800 list of slaveholders in Dauphin County. The 1790 Federal Census shows Montgomery with two slaves for life, one of which may be Joseph (the slave names, age and sex are not reported). Joseph may have died, been sold, or ran away in the years between these various records.
Sources: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Eff or Aff
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 26
Slave Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Slave Status: Slave for life
Date of Registry or Record: July 1800
Slave Memo: "Aff" appears with David Montgomery in a July 1800 list of slaves in Dauphin County.
She ran away, taking her 18 year-old son, on March 05, 1802. Text of runaway ad:
"Six Dollars Reward. RAN away, on Friday, the 5th Instant, from the Subscriber, in Lower Paxton township, Dauphin county, a Negro Woman, named EFF; about 25 years of age, a large likely Wench, and has a Son with her, about 18 months old. She took with her a good deal of wearing Apparel, among which are calico Gowns, and 1 muslin ditto, some calico and linsey Shortgowns, a chip Hat, and other articles not particularly recollected. Whoever secures said Wench and Child, so that their Master get them again, shall have the above Reward, and all reasonable expences, if brought home.
DAVID MONTGOMERY. March 10, 1802."
Note that her name is given as Eff in the advertisement, and that her age is given as 25. This differs from the data in the 1800 slave list, but is close enough to believe that this is the same person. The child, an eighteen month-old son, is most likely Bob, the child registered in Dauphin County by Montgomery and listed above. Aff/Eff does not appear in any later records for Dauphin County, indicating that she either successfully escaped or was captured and sold.
Sources: Tax Lists, Inhabitants and Slaves, 1800, 1807 | "Lancaster Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser, March 17, 1802
- Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Isaac
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 20
Slave Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Slave Status: Slave for life
Date of Registry or Record: July 1800
Slave Memo: Isaac appears with David Montgomery in a July 1800 list of slaves in Dauphin County.
Source: Tax Lists, Inhabitants and Slaves, 1800, 1807
- Owner's Surname: Montgomery
Owner's First Name: Joseph
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Paxton
Owner's County: Dauphin (Lancaster, at time of registration)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation: Clerk
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 22
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Tom
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 25
Date of Registry or Record: September 14, 1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life. Described as "Negro Man" in
registration. Registered in Lancaster.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 23
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Margaret
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): 55
Date of Registry or Record: September 14, 1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Described as "Negro Woman" in registration. Registered in Lancaster.
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Owner's Surname: Moore
Owner's First Name: William
Owner's Township: Londonderry
Owner's County: Dauphin
(Lancaster, at the time of the 1780 registration)
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
William Moore's two slaves were registered at Lancaster on November 1, 1780
"by his attorney William Hay of the same place [Londonderry Township]."
Hay also registered the slaves of James Forster of Londonderry Township.
- Counter: 156
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Maria
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Age (Years): about 35 years old at registration
Date of Registry or Record: 11/1/1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Woman, age about 35 years."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Counter: 157
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Sampson
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): about 11
years old at registration
Date of Registry or Record: 11/1/1780
Slave Memo: Status: Slave for life.
Registered at Lancaster as a "Negroe Boy, age about 11 years."
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves and Servants, 1780
| "Slaves in Lancaster County in 1780"
- Owner's Surname: Neidig
Owner's First Name: John
Owner's City:
Owner's Township: Swatara
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 336
Slave Surname, if known: Stewart
Slave Given Name: John
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
- Owner's Surname: Nelson
Owner's First Name: Henry
Owner's City: Libertytown
Owner's Township:
Owner's County: Frederick
Owner's State: Maryland
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Slave Surname, if known: Barrick
Slave Given Name: Charles
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): 26
Slave Date of Birth: 1802 (calculated)
Date of Registry or Record: 3/8/1828
Slave Status: Runaway slave from Maryland, believed hiding in Pennsylvania.
Slave Memo: Nicknamed "Buck."
Extract of runaway advertisement: $200 reward for Charles Barrick "Buck," age 26, from Libertytown, Frederick County, Maryland. Henry Nelson, March 1, 1828.
Source: Harrisburg Argus, March 8, 1828
- Owner's Surname: Noble
Owner's First Name: John
Owner's City: Harrisburg
Owner's Township:
Owner's County: Dauphin
Owner's State: PA
Owner's Occupation:
Owner--Memo:
- Counter: 342
Slave Surname, if known:
Slave Given Name: Tom
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Age (Years): ?
Date of Registry or Record:
Slave Memo: Status: Slave to age 28.
Source: Children of Previously Registered Slaves
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