Mifflin County Slaveholders A - Z

Slaveholders Listed on This Page

1. Brown, William (Enslaved persons listed: Un-named woman and child)
2. Good, Robert (Enslaved persons listed: Carlos)

Enslavement Data

• Slaveholder Name: Brown, William
  City or Township: Armaugh Township
  County: Mifflin
  Occupation:
  Notes: See also the listing for this slaveholder in Cumberland County.

  1. Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
     Sex: Female
     Age: "aged 25 years"
     Date of Birth: circa 1772
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negro Woman"
     Notes: Offered for sale in October 1797 along with a 6-month-old female child:

     FOR SALE,
     A HEALTHY Negro Woman, aged 25 years, duly registered according to law, with a Female Child, 6 months old: She understands House Work exceeding well. For particulars apply to William Brown, Esq. Armaugh Township, Mifflin County.
     October 7, 1797.

     Date of Record: 07 October 1797
     Sources: Oracle of Dauphin and Harrisburgh Advertiser, 11 October 1797.

  2. Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in ad
     Sex: Female
     Age: "6 months old"
     Date of Birth: circa April 1797
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female Child"
     Notes: Offered for sale in October 1797 along with a 25-year-old woman:

     FOR SALE,
     A HEALTHY Negro Woman, aged 25 years, duly registered according to law, with a Female Child, 6 months old: She understands House Work exceeding well. For particulars apply to William Brown, Esq. Armaugh Township, Mifflin County.
     October 7, 1797.

     Date of Record: 07 October 1797
     Sources: Oracle of Dauphin and Harrisburgh Advertiser, 11 October 1797.

• Slaveholder Name: Good, Robert
  City or Township: Hope Furnace, Derry Township
  County: Mifflin
  Occupation: Ironmaster
  Notes: Hope Furnace was built circa 1798 or earlier by Colonel William Lewis of Berks County. It was managed by James Blaine, of Perry County, a son-in-law to Lewis. Robert Good was another son-in-law, marrying Lewis' daughter Jane in April 1809.
  Sources: The Huntingdon Gazette, 21 April 1809; Franklin Ellis, History of That Part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys Embraced in the Counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, Philadelphia, 1886, p. 651.

  1. Enslaved Person's Name: Carlos
     Sex: Male
     Age: "above 23 years of age"
     Date of Birth: circa 1785 or earlier
     Status: Self-emancipated April 1808
     Description: "Negroe man"
     Notes: Carlos escaped from Hope Furnace on April 24, 1808. Robert Good published the following escape notice to try to recover him:

     TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
     RAN-AWAY,
     ON Sunday the 24th of April, from Hope furnace, Derry township in Mifflin county, a Negroe man named Carlos, above 23 years of age; about 5 feet, 2 or 3 inches high. He had on when he went away, a fine linen shirt, a nankeen coat, a white dimity jacket, yellow corded pantaloons, a pair of clouded cotton stockings and a pair of fine round-soled shoes. He is very talkative, and fond of spirits. As he is a good workman in a forge, he will probably offer himself for employment, in some other this state. Ten dollars will be given if he is secured in any jail, so that the subscriber may get him again; and if brought home, reasonable charges will be paid, by
     ROBERT GOOD.
     Living at Hope furnace.

     Date of Record: 25 May 1808
     Sources: The Republican Argus (Northumberland), 25 May 1808.