Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Slaveholders N-R

Slaveholder Name Nelson, Robert
City or Township Fermanaugh Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes Registered in 1780 with Samuel Coran of Fermanaugh Twp.

Slave Name Chloe
Slave Age 10
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1770 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record September 13, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

Slaveholder Name Nelson, William
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Surname may also be spelled "Nilson."

Slave Name Jack
Slave Age ? (adult)
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Cumberland County court Indictments: "Alexander Lindsay & Negro Jack, a slave of William Nelson (Nilson) stole 1 pr. of leather saddle bags, 3 linen shirts, 1 linen stock, 2 pr. of woolen stockings, 1 pr. of shoes & 1 pr. of silver shoe buckles from Nathan Hays (Jan. 12)"
Date of Record January 12, 1782
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #1022.

Slaveholder Name Nicholson, James
City or Township Newton Township
Occupation
Notes Two Blacks living in the James Nicholson household were listed as members of Big Springs Presbyterian Church: Sal and Pomp. Sal is the mother of Diana, and known to be a slave. Pomp does not appear in any slave records and may be a free Black.

Slave Name Diana
Slave Age Infant at time of registration.
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1791-April 15
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes Diana's mother was listed in 1791 Registration as "Sal."
Date of Record 1791
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Pegg
Slave Age Infant at time of registration.
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1794-March 11
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1794
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Sal
Slave Age ?
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Mother of Diana. Sal is listed in the 1789 membership records of Big Spring Presbyterian Church, under the household of James Nicholson. Also listed in the same household is Pomp, whose status is not determined.
Date of Record 1789
Source: Alosi, "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810," page 55.

Slaveholder Name Nicholson, James (2)
City or Township Mifflin Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Betsy
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1807-December 22
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1808
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Noble, James
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name George
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1826-July 18
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1826 Registration lists George's mother as "negro Patience."
Date of Record 1826
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Ducilla
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1813-December 18
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes Ducilla's status as a slave is confirmed as late as 1833, by researcher Ruth Hodge of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In an article printed in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Patriot-News, it is noted that Hodge has located a roster listing John Noble as the owner of "a 'mulatto' woman named Ducille." (Matt Miller, "Researcher etches vivid black history," The Patriot-News, Cumberland County 250th Anniversay Supplement,(Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) January 27, 2000. Page 8.)
Date of Record 1813
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Jacob
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1811-November 06
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1811
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Violet
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1812-December
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1813
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Prudence
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1820-April 13
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1820 Registration lists Prudence's mother as "negro Patience."
Date of Record 1820
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Thursday
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1824-July 29
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1824 Registration lists Thursday's mother as "negro Patience."
Date of Record 1824
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Orr, John
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name White, Thom
Slave Age 01
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1788-October 09
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Black, Thom
Slave Age 01
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1788-September 21
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name York, Nell
Slave Age 04
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1785-July 17
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Parker, Andrew
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Poll
Slave Age -
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1795-March 14
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1795 Registration lists Poll's mother as "mulatto mother- Beck."
Date of Record 1795
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Hannah
Slave Age -
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1793-March 28
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1793 Registration lists Hannah's mother as a Mulatto.
Date of Record 1793
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Parker, Isaac Brown
City or Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Richard
Slave Age 16
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1795-May 06
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Manumitted at age 16, Indentured to age 28
Slave Notes It is unclear why Isaac Brown Parker legally manumitted Richard, then drew up a deed of indenture to bind the former slave to serve until his twenty-eighth birthday. Richard would have been bound for that length of time anyway under the Gradual Emancipation Act of 1780. According to the indenture, Parker paid Richard the sum of one dollar at the time of the indenture, and agreed to outfit him with "one Suit of Apparel which shall be new" upon the expiration of the indenture.
The date of birth for Richard should be considered approximate, and may have been fixed upon at the time of the indenture, as he is described in the indenture as "aged about Sixteen years." To read the entire document, click on the hyperlinked source, below.
Date of Record 1811
Source: INDENTURE OF THE NEGROE RICHARD

Slaveholder Name Parker, James
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Ebit
Slave Age 06
Slave Sex: Undetermined
Slave Date of Birth 1783-July 31
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Tom
Slave Age 06
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1783-April 03
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Charity
Slave Age 01
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1788-April 06
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Parkison, Richard
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation Farmer
Notes

Slave Name Bob
Slave Age 06
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1774 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 28, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914

Slaveholder Name Patterson, Capt. William
City or Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Catto
Slave Age 60a
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1720 (calculated)
Slave Description Man
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slaveholder Name Patterson, James
City or Township West Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Eunice
Slave Age 12a
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1768 (calculated)
Slave Description Wench
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slaveholder Name Pattison, Charles
City or Township Carlisle Borough
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Name not reported
Slave Age Age not known
Slave Sex: Sex not known
Slave Date of Birth Prior to 1768
Slave Description "Negro"
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Pattison was assessed for one "Negro" in Carlisle, in 1768.
Date of Record 1768
Source History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Chicago: Warner & Beers & Co. 1886, p. 221.

Slaveholder Name Patton, Elizabeth
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation Widow
Notes The Negro slave Sally was willed to Elizabeth by her husband Matthew upon his death in 1778.

Slave Name Sally
Slave Age ?
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description Negro Wench
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Upon his death in 1778, Matthew Patton of Peter's Township, Cumberland County willed Sally to his wife Elizabeth.
Date of Record January, 1778
Source: Will of Matthew Patton, 1778

Slaveholder Name Patton, Matthew
City or Township Peters Township
Occupation
Notes Born in 1705, died in 1778. Husband of Elizabeth, to whom he willed his Negro slave Sally.

Slave Name Sally
Slave Age ?
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description Negro Wench
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Upon his death in 1778, Matthew Patton of Peter's Township, Cumberland County willed Sally to his wife Elizabeth.
Date of Record January, 1778
Source: Will of Matthew Patton, 1778

Slaveholder Name Pawling, Henry
City or Township Antrim Township (modern Franklin County)
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Dina
Slave Age 18
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1762 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Pegg
Slave Age 15
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1755 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Jim
Slave Age 21
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1759 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Tom
Slave Age 26
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1754 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Tom
Slave Age 28
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1752 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Sam
Slave Age 33
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1747 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Cezar
Slave Age 56
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1724 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Researcher John Alosi, in reading the original handwritten registration, transcribes this slave's name as "Gajar," believing it to be an African name. In that none of Pawling's other slaves had African names, this is unlikely.(Alosi, p.32)
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Cato
Slave Age 32
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1748 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Nanci
Slave Age 12
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1768 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Prudence
Slave Age 01
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1779-October (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Age as noted on registration was 10 months.
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Bob
Slave Age 01
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1779-August (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Age as noted on registration was 12 months.
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Bet
Slave Age 02
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1778 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Jack
Slave Age 04
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1776 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves
Slave Name Bella
Slave Age 15
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1755 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record August 23, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

Slaveholder Name Peebles, William
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation Innkeeper
Notes Kept the Sign of the Black Horse tavern on (modern) West King Street in Carlisle irregularly from 1771-1775. He was appointed to a captaincy in the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment in 1776, but was captured and died that same year. (Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, page 77)

Slave Name ?
Slave Age ? "boy"
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description "Negro boy"
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Found in inventory of Captain William Peebles, taken 07 March, 1777. Also listed was the time of a servant girl.
Date of Record March 07, 1777
Source: Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, page 77

Slaveholder Name Peoples, Robert
City or Township Hamilton Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Peg
Slave Age 23
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1757 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro Wench
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 27, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914
Slave Name Tom
Slave Age Not recorded
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth
Slave Description "Negroe Man"
Slave Status Captured runaway
Slave Notes Captured and imprisoned in the workhouse in Philadelphia, this person identified himself as an escaped slave belonging to Robert Peoples. Text of jailor's ad:
THERE is now confined in the Work-House of the city and county of Philadelphia, the following persons, on suspicion of being RUN AWAY SERVANTS, --- viz.
TOM, a Negroe Man, says that he belongs to Robert Peoples, in Shippen's town, in Cumberland county.
The owners are desired to come, prove property, pay charges and take them away, otherwise they will be sold for their fees in six weeks after date. CLEMENT SMITH, Keeper of the Work-House.
Jan. 29, 1785.
Date of Record February 2, 1785
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 2, 1785.

Slaveholder Name Pierce, Joseph
City or Township West Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Ben
Slave Age -
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1800-May 11
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Seneca
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1801-March 28
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1801
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Bill
Slave Age -
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1794-December 19
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1795
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Dick
Slave Age -
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1792-August 08
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1792 Registration lists Dick's mother as "Sall."
Date of Record 1792
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Peirce, Paul
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Peirce described his location as "near Carlisle."

Slave Name Joe
Slave Age "twenty years old"
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth circa 1759
Slave Description "Mulatto slave"
Slave Status Slave for life--escaped
Slave Notes Joe escaped on July 27, 1779 with James, listed below. Peirce placed the following runaway slave advertisement in Philadelphia newspapers:
"FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the 27th of July last, from the subscriber near Carlisle, in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, a Mulatto slave named JOE, twenty years old, five feet eight or nine inches high, thick and well set; had on a tow shirt and trowsers, new shoes and buckles, and a wool hat. Also a Negro man named JAMES, thirty years old, five feet ten inches high, slender made; had on a tow shirt and trowsers, old felt hat, and half-worn shoes. Whoever takes up said slaves and secures them in any gaol, so that their master may have them again, shall have the above reward, or Twenty-five Pounds for each, paid by
PAUL PEIRCE.
August 6.
Peirce may have captured Joe, but not James, as he later ran addidtional advertisements seeking only James, and in which he eventually upped the reward to 100 Pounds and added as a contact "RICHARD MOORE, in Third street, next door to the Bunch of Grapes tavern." The additinal ads were in February and April 1780.
Date of Record 06 August 1779
Source: Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser, 21 August 1779.
Slave Name James
Slave Age 30-35 (Peirce initially gave James' age as 30, then changed it to 35)
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth between 1745 and 1750
Slave Description "Negroe Man"
Slave Status Slave for life--Runaway
Slave Notes James escaped from Peirce on 27 July 1779 in company with Joe, listed above. Peirce placed an advertisement for both in August 1779. See Joe, above, for that ad. In February, Peirce advertised for only James, perhaps suggesting he had recaptured Joe. Text of February follow up runaway slave advertisement for James:
"FIFTY POUNDS Reward.
RAN away, the 27th of July last, from the subscriber, in Cumberland county, near Carlisle, a Negroe Man, named JAMES, 35 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, slender made, of a spare visage, and one of his legs a little thicker about the small than the other. Had on, when he went away, tow shirt and trowsers, old felt hat, and half worn shoes. Whoever takes up said slave, and secures him in any goal, so that his master may have him again, shall have the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by PAUL PEIRCE."
Pierce later ran an additional advertisement in which he upped the reward to 100 Pounds and added as a contact "RICHARD MOORE, in Third street, next door to the Bunch of Grapes tavern." The second ad was dated April 27, 1780.
Date of Record February 23, 1780
Source: Pennsylvania Gazette, February 23, 1780.

Slaveholder Name Poe, James
City or Township Antrim Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Sady
Slave Age 15a
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1765 (calculated)
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slave Name Haddy
Slave Age 17
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1763-March
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slave Name Fabley
Slave Age .5
Slave Sex: Undetermined
Slave Date of Birth 1780-May
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slave Name Jacob
Slave Age 05a
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1775-January
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slave Name Ritter
Slave Age 20a
Slave Sex: Undetermined
Slave Date of Birth 1760 (calculated)
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slave Name Nan
Slave Age 30a
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1750 (calculated)
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slave Name Mackey
Slave Age 35a
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1735 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slave Name Joe
Slave Age 02
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1778-December
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slaveholder Name Pollock, James
City or Township Carlisle Borough
Occupation Tavern Keeper--"Sign of the Indian King" Tavern, West High Street, from 1760-1778, and later kept the Carlisle Hotel, at the southwest corner of High and Pitt Streets, from sometime before 1784 until 1786. (Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, p 30-32.)
Notes Assessed in 1768 for two "Negroes" in Carlisle Borough (History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Chicago: Warner & Beers & Co. 1886, p. 221.)

Slave Name Dina
Slave Age 08a
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1781 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro Girl
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Sophia
Slave Age 04a
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1785 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro Girl
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Romeo
Slave Age ? (adult)
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Indicted in Cumberland County court in 1800 as follows: "Negro Romeo the slave of James Pollock, Negro Phill the slave of William Blair and Negro Dick the property of John Carothers, Esq. for riot & mayhem, and knocking out one of Jacob Jacob's foreteeth, as he was going to his lodging down Hanover St. at night. (March 17) Tent: William Blair (Mar 17)."
Date of Record March 17, 1800
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #2163.

Slaveholder Name Pollock, James
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes Husband of Ann Pollock, brother of Oliver Pollock.

Slave Name Venus
Slave Age Not recorded, but described as a "wench"
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth Prior to 1790
Slave Description "Negro wench"
Slave Status To serve up to ten additional years from proving of will
Slave Notes Willed by James Pollock to his wife, Ann. Pollock specified "The negro wench, Venus, not to serve more than ten years..."
Date of Record Will dated 24 September 1790
Source: William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries, XIII, First and Second Series, Volume II, page 73.

Slaveholder Name Pollock, Oliver
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Mentioned as the previous owner of Aaron Dorset, a runaway slave from a Lancaster owner.

Slave Name Cloe
Slave Age 18
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1782 -- December
Slave Description Negro Girl
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes Originally registered by William Kelso in Carlisle in 1789, Cloe passed to Kelso's daughter Rebeckah sometime after his death. Rebeckah transferred Cloe to John Harland, a Philadelphia merchant, in 1794, who sold the girl to Peter Gerandan for 118 Spanish milled dollars. Gerandan sold Cloe two months later to L. Crousillat, who sold her in 1795 to Oliver Pollack, all for the same 118 Spanish milled dollars. Pollack sold the girl in November, 1796, to Andrew Carothers for sixty pounds.
Date of Record November 21, 1796
Source: Slave transfer from Rebeckah Kelso to John Harland

Slave Name Dorset, Aaron
Slave Age 40a
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1759 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Bought from Benjamin Chew, in Dover, Delaware. Subsequently sold to James Crawford in Lampeter, Lancaster County. Dorset ran away from Crawford in May, 1799. See the runaway ad under "Crawford, James" in the Lancaster County section.
Date of Record May 11, 1799
Source: Lancaster Journal

Slaveholder Name Poples, Robert
City or Township Shippensburg
Occupation
Notes Surname may also be "Peebly."

Slave Name Jo
Slave Age .1
Slave Sex: Undetermined
Slave Date of Birth 1788-August 14
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Palm
Slave Age 08
Slave Sex: Undetermined
Slave Date of Birth 1780-May 19
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes This slave may have legally been registered as a slave for life, from the birthdate.
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Ruth
Slave Age 06
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1782-July 25
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Nell
Slave Age 04
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1784-September 25
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Pegg
Slave Age 02
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1786-August 30
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Postlethwaite, Samuel
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes By 1804, the registrations listed Samuel Postlethwaite as "Esquire." See also, Postlethwaite, Samuel, as County Jailer Born 1736/7 in Lancaster County, son of John Postlethwaite. Married Matilda Rose in 1760, in Lancaster. Died August 24, 1810 "in his 72d year." (Egle's Notes and Queries, Annual Volume 1900, XXXII, p. 172)

Slave Name Frank
Slave Age 05
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1784-January 05
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Liatt
Slave Age 01
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1793-August 10
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1794 Registration lists Liatt's mother as "Doll."
Date of Record 1794
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Patience
Slave Age -
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1795-June 18
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1795 Registration lists Patience's mother as "Doll-mulatto slave."
Date of Record 1795
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Hannah
Slave Age 07
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1782-May 12
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Polly
Slave Age -
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1798-October 14
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1799
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Sam
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1801-March 03
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1801 Registration lists Sam's mother as "Doll-mulatto."
Date of Record 1801
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves
Slave Name Tom
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1804-June 29
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1804
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Postlethwaite, Samuel, as County Jailer
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation County Jailer
Notes As County Jailer, Postlethwaite had the responsibility to hold and even sell Blacks who where jailed upon suspicion of being runaways.

Slave Name Jack
Slave Age ? (man)
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description Negro man
Slave Status Runaway--captured
Slave Notes "Says he belongs to John Mitchel, as advertised in the Newspapers" Text of jailer's ad:
"Carlisle, November 15, 1776.
NOW in the goal of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, the following persons, viz. Two NEGROE men, the one calls himself JACK, and says he belongs to John Mitchel, as advertised in the Newspapers; the other says his name is GEORGE, and that he belongs to Samuel Willick, in Jersey, opposite to New Castle. ROBERT WOOD, an Englishman, who confesses he belongs to John Gillis, of Baltimore county, Maryland. MURDOCK RYLEY, servant to Felix Doyle, of the Path Valley. And JAMES PARSONS, servant to Stephen Gill, of Baltimore county, Maryland. Their masters are desired to come, pay their fees, and take them out, or they will be sold for the same in three weeks from this date, by SAMUEL POSTLETHWAITE."
Date of Record November 20, 1776
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette

Slave Name George
Slave Age ? (man)
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description Negro man
Slave Status Runaway--captured
Slave Notes "belongs to Samuel Willick, in Jersey, opposite to New Castle." See text of jailer's ad, above.
Date of Record November 20, 1776
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette

Slaveholder Name Potter, James
City or Township
Occupation
Notes Potter seems to have lost a slave from the Gap Tavern, Lancaster County.

Slave Name Jack
Slave Age 26a
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1744 (calculated)
Slave Description "Negroe man"
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Jack ran away in 1770 from the Gap Tavern, Lancaster County. His escape must have been made all the more difficult by the handcuffs that he wore. Potter's advertisement for Jack's capture appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette:
FOUR POUNDS REWARD.
RUN away, on the 12th of this instant October, from the subscriber, at the Gap Tavern, in Lancaster county, a NEGROE man, named JACK, about 26 years old, 5 feet 5 inches high, a good looking smart speaking fellow, has a scar above his left eye brow, and had on a pair of handcuffs, a felt hat, a brown double breasted jacket, with hair buttons, and green lining, a pair of good buckskin breeches, woolen hose, blue and red mixed, old shoes, and no shirt. Whoever brings the said slave to the subscriber, in Cumberland county, shall receive the above reward, and if secured in any jail, Twenty Shillings reward, paid by me JAMES POTTER.

Date of Record October 25, 1770
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, October 25, 1770

Slaveholder Name Potts, Hugh H.
City or Township Middleton Township
Occupation
Notes 1807 Registration for Jack places Hugh H. Potts in Carlisle.

Slave Name Jack
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1806-September 06
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1807
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Samuel
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1805-September 12
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1806
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Power, William
City or Township Juniata Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Lucy
Slave Age 03
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1800-July 02
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1803
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Patience
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1803-February 16
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1803
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Ramsey, Mary
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Jacob
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1802-November 15
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1803
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Raum, John
City or Township Shippensburg
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Maria
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1818-January 11
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1818
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Watts, George
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1819-August 01
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1819
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Reed, Francis
City or Township Carlisle
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Ben
Slave Age ? (adult)
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Undetermined. Referred to as "slave" in document.
Slave Notes Indicted in 1797 in Cumberland County as follows: "Negro Ben, slave of Francis Reed of Carlisle, assault & battery on Daniel Morris. Test: Thomas Kernan, Michael Quigley (Oct. 23)"
Date of Record October 23, 1797
Source: Schaumann, Indictments--1750-1800, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Item #1806.

Slaveholder Name Reed, James
City or Township Not legible
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Elizabeth
Slave Age 21
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1759 (calculated)
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Registered along with an eleven month-old child, probably her son (Isaac).
Date of Record September 7, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

Slave Name Isaac
Slave Age 01 ("eleven months")
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1779 (calculated)
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes Registered with a woman, possibly his mother (Elizabeth).
Date of Record September 7, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

Slaveholder Name Reed, John
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Carey
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1807-November 24
Slave Description Mulatto
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1808
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Grant
Slave Age ?
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth ?
Slave Description
Slave Status Undetermined
Slave Notes Grant is listed in the 1789 membership records of Big Spring Presbyterian Church, under the household of John Reed.
Date of Record 1789
Source: Alosi, "Slavery in Post Revolutionary Cumberland County, 1780-1810," pages 54-55.

Slaveholder Name Rees, Jeremiah
City or Township East Pennsboro Township
Occupation Innkeeper
Notes Rees operated an inn in Harrisburg, near the ferry, in 1810. This is documented in the book "A Journey to Ohio in 1810" by Margaret Van Horn Dwight. Dwight wrote of staying at Rees' house in November, 1810, while waiting to cross the Susquehanna to East Pennsboro Township on the way to Ohio. While there, Dwight's party was accused by Rees' Black servant of theft. See the entry for Rees on the Dauphin County page for the account.

Slave Name Phillis
Slave Age 01
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1792-September 12
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1793 Registration lists Phillis' mother as "Tira." This may be the "black wench," servant of Jeremiah Rees described by a traveller in 1810 (see notes on Rees, above). An account of the incident is on the Dauphin County pages.
Date of Record 1793
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Reynolds, John
City or Township Shippensburg Township
Occupation
Notes Son-in-law of Colonel Benjamin Blythe, Sr. of Southampton Township. John Reynolds married Hannah Blythe. Reynolds died sometime in or before 1792, and Hannah remarried to William Leeper. (Will of Colonel Benjamin Blythe, Sr., Southampton Township, Cumberland County. Will dated October 20, 1801. Cumberland County Will Book G, number 94, pages 244-249. Copy of will provided to the Afrolumens Project by Mrs. C. W. Bristley, Fremont, Ohio.)

Slave Name Dave
Slave Age 06
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1782--June
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record March 21, 1789
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914

Slave Name Jim
Slave Age 04
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1784--April
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record March 21, 1789
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914

Slave Name Edmon
Slave Age 03 Years and 01 Month
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1786--February
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record March 21, 1789
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914

Slaveholder Name Rham, Jacob
City or Township Shippensburg
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Tom
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1800-March 18
Slave Description Negro Boy
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1800
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Richardson, Edmond
City or Township Armagh Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Bill
Slave Age 11a
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1769 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1780
Source: Slave Returns Listings

Slaveholder Name Rippey, Capt. William
City or Township Shippensburg
Occupation
Notes 1780 Registrations appeared on the same sheet as those of Thomas Buchanan, indicating that they may have registered together. (Source 43) Rippey kept the George Washington tavern, located on West King Street at the Branch in Shippensburg, from about 1771-1819. It was built in 1738 by his father Samuel. (Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, page 77-78)

Slave Name Flora
Slave Age 02
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1786-March 18
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes Flora's mother, as identified in the 1788 registration, was Dinah, who may be the slave registered in 1780 by Rippey at age 10.
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Dick
Slave Age 30
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1750 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro Slave
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

Slave Name Jem
Slave Age 20a
Slave Sex: Undetermined
Slave Date of Birth 1760 (calculated)
Slave Description Mulatto Slave
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

Slave Name Beaner
Slave Age 25a
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1755 (calculated)
Slave Description Mulatto Slave, A Wench
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

Slave Name Dina
Slave Age 10a
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1770 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro Slave
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes See the entry above for Flora, a child of the slave Dinah, registered in 1788 by Rippey.
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

Slave Name Tom
Slave Age 11a
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1769 (calculated)
Slave Description Mulatto Boy Slave
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

Slave Name Hannah
Slave Age 01
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1790-April 26
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes 1791 Registration lists Hannah's mother as "wench Rachel, former property of Samuel Rippey, deceased."
Date of Record 1791
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Mattes
Slave Age 10a
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1770 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro Boy Slave
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 6, 1780
Source: Register of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

Slave Name Claressa
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1811-July 10
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes Registered in 1811 by Joseph Duncan, Esquire, for William Rippy, Sr., of Shippensburg.
Date of Record 1811
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Jane
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1807-June 24
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1807
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name ?
Slave Age ? "man"
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth ? After 1780?
Slave Description "Negro man"
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes Found on the inventory of William Rippey, who died on 22 September, 1819. Also listed was the time of a Negro girl. The girl could be any one of several girls already listed here.
Date of Record After 1819
Source: Schaumann, Taverns of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, 1750-1840, page 78

Slaveholder Name Rippey, John
City or Township Shippensburg Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Charles
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1809-January 03
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1809
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name Gustus
Slave Age
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1806-September 10
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1807
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slaveholder Name Rippey, Samuel, Sr.
City or Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Doll
Slave Age 02
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1786-January 15
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1788
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

Slave Name ?
Slave Age 23a
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1771 (calculated)
Slave Description "Negro Man"
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes: Offered for public sale on April 01, 1794, as part of the estate of Samuel Rippey Senior, deceased. Text of advertisement:
"To be Sold, Agreeable to the last Will and Testament of Samuel Rippey, senior, deceased, ABOUT two hundred Acres of good Limestone Land, Patented, adjoining the West end of Shippensburgh, in Franklin County; about the one half of said Tract is cleared and under good fence, a good Orchard, and Stone Dwelling House, and a standing Well of Water; the greatest part of the uncleared Land is Rich Locust Land, intermixed with good Oak and Hickory Timber.--Should it not be Sold before the first day of April next, it will then be exposed to Public Sale, by
WILLIAM RIPPEY, SAMUEL RIPPEY, } Executors.
N.B. Will be Sold on the said first day of April, one healthy Negro Man, about 23 years of age recorded agreeable to law; and a large young Horse fit for any business."

Date of Record January 08, 1794
Source: Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette, January 08, 1794

Slaveholder Name Rippey, Samuel
City or Township Hopewell Township
Occupation Tanner
Notes

Slave Name Rob
Slave Age 22
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1758 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 25, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914

Slave Name Matt
Slave Age 09
Slave Sex: Male
Slave Date of Birth 1771 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 25, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914

Slave Name Ann
Slave Age 18
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1762 (calculated)
Slave Description
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 25, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914

Slave Name Nell
Slave Age 01
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1779 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro
Slave Status Slave for life
Slave Notes
Date of Record October 25, 1780
Source: John R. Miller Collection, 1750-1914

Slaveholder Name Robinson, William
City or Township Wayne Township
Occupation
Notes

Slave Name Lucy
Slave Age 04a
Slave Sex: Female
Slave Date of Birth 1785 (calculated)
Slave Description Negro Girl
Slave Status Slave to age 28
Slave Notes
Date of Record 1789
Source: Registrations of Children of Slaves

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