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Luzerne County Slaveholders

Slaveholders listed on this page

1. Perkins, David (Enslaved persons listed: Christopher Hazard)
2. Schott, John P. (Enslaved persons listed: Robert)

Enslavement Data

• Slaveholder Name: Perkins, David
  City or Township: Kingston
  County: Luzerne
  Occupation: Tavern keeper, Kingston, 1794-1804; Justice of the Peace in Kingston, 1808
  Notes: Lived c1769-1851

  1. Enslaved Person's Name: Christopher Hazard
     Sex: Male
     Age: "about 15 years of age"
     Date of Birth: circa 1787 (estimated from age given in advertisement)
     Status: Apprenticed
     Description: "Mulatto Boy"
     Notes: Hazard escaped from Perkins in August 1802:

     RAN away from the subscriber, on Saturday the 14th of August, an Apprentice MULATTO BOY,
     named CHRISTOPHER HAZARD, about 15 years of age, of a middling size, with sandy hair, and well set. -- All persons are forbid harboring or trusting said boy on penalty of the Law. And any person who may return him, will be entitled to one Cent Reward, and no charges paid.
     DAVID PERKINS.
     Kingston, August 28, 1802.

     Date of Record: 28 August 1802
     Source: The Luzerne Federalist and Susquehanna Advertiser, 13 September 1802.

• Slaveholder Name: Schott, John P.
  City or Township: Wilkes-Barre
  County: Luzerne
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Enslaved Person's Name: Robert, or Bob
     Sex: Male
     Age: "About 22 years of age"
     Date of Birth: circa 1771 (estimated from age given in advertisement)
     Status: Slave for life--self-emancipated September 1793
     Description: "Negroe Boy"
     Notes: Robert escaped from Schott in September 1793:

     RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on the 11th day of September last, a Negroe Boy, named BOB, or ROBERT, about 22 years of age, has but one eye, and a scar on his breast, talks German and English; took with him a brown cloth coat, one pair of olive velvet breeches, one pair of black sattinet ditto, and jacket, one pair of boots, and one pair fine lined shoes, &c. &c. Whoever takes up said Negroe, and confines him in any goal, so that the owner gets him again, shall have EIGHT DOLLARS reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by JOHN P. SCHOTT, of Wilkesbarre, in Luzerne county, and state of Pennsylvania.

     Date of Record: 11 December 1793
     Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 11 December 1793.

   

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