Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Unknown Slaveholders (Enslaved persons listed: Joe, Bett, Hetty, Dinah, Peter, Jeff, Lucey, Madis, Irenia)
- Not specified, Gettysburg (Enslaved persons listed: Mulatto Girl)
- Not specified, Adams County (Enslaved persons listed: "Colored Girl")
- Not specified, Gettysburg (Enslaved persons listed: Ralph)
- Not specified, Littlestown (Enslaved persons listed: Leonard)
- Agnew, James, Sr. (Enslaved persons listed: unnamed slave)
- Agnew, James, Jr. (Enslaved persons listed: unnamed slave)
- Bender, Peter (Enslaved persons listed: Nelly)
- Black, James (Enslaved persons listed: Maria Norris)
- Branden, Eleazar (Enslaved persons listed: Jim)
- Brough, Peter (Enslaved persons listed: Phebe, Charles)
- Brown, Andrew (Enslaved persons listed: Grace, Joe, Joshua, one unnamed slave)
- Brown, Richard (Enslaved persons listed: Tom, Betty, John, Rosanna, Nero, Orlando, Jem, Sam)
- Campbell, Armstrong (Enslaved persons listed: Samuel)
- Carnahan, Alexander (Enslaved persons listed: Dine, George, Philip, one unnamed slave)
- Chamberlain, Neiman (Enslaved persons listed: Fene)
- Clark, John (Enslaved persons listed: unnamed slave)
- Cobean, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Hagey, Doll, Tom, Dinah, other unnamed slaves)
- Cochran, James (Enslaved persons listed: unnamed slave)
- Cooper, William (Enslaved persons listed: Isaac)
- Cross, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: unnamed female slave)
Enslavement Data
- Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
City or Township:
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Joe
Sex: Male
Age: Two months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 15 February 1801
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Notes:
Date of Record: 28 May 1801
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: "A" surname, unknown
City or Township:
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Bett
Sex: Female
Age: Two months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 01 January 1802
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Molattoe"
Notes:
Date of Record: 15 March 1802
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
City or Township:
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hetty
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 14 April 1803
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: 14 July 1803
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
City or Township:
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 10 May 1804
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Mulattoe"
Notes:
Date of Record: 10 October 1804
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
City or Township:
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Peter
Sex: Male
Age: Four months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 29 December 1806
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: 21 April 1807
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
City or Township:
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jeff
Sex: Male
Age: Two months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 07 August 1809
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Mulatto"
Notes:
Date of Record: 27 October 1809
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
City or Township:
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Lucey
Sex: Female
Age: One month old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 05 November 1811
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: 06 December 1811
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
City or Township:
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Madis
Sex: Male
Age: Three months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 07 January 1813
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Mulatto"
Notes:
Date of Record: 08 April 1813
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: " A" surname, unknown
City or Township:
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: First page of Register is missing, listing slaveholders with surnames beginning with the letter "A."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Irenia
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 03 March 1820
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Mulattoe"
Notes:
Date of Record: 09 August 1820
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Not specified--Gettysburg
City or Township: Borough of Gettysburg
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: Unnamed owner placed the following ad in the Adams Sentinel offering for sale an 18-year old "Mulatto girl":
FOR SALE, A Mulatto Girl, EIGHTEEN years of age, who has to serve until 28. She is well acquainted with all kinds of house work. Enquire of the Printer.
July 1.
Source: "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection. Used by permission. This advertisement ran in the Adams Centinel (Gettysburg), 16 July 1817.
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Slaveholder Name: Not specified--Gettysburg
City or Township: Borough of Gettysburg
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: Unnamed owner placed the following ad in the Adams Sentinel offering for sale a young "Colored Girl":
THE TIME OF A COLORED GIRL,
WHO has four years to serve, will be disposed of. Assurances can be given that she is strictly honest.--.
Inquire of the PRINTER.
Source: Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg), 27 January 1830.
Slaveholder Name: Not specified--Gettysburg
City or Township: Gettysburg borough
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: The following person was jailed in Gettysburg in 1810, released, then committed to the same jail again before escaping:
50 DOLLARS REWARD,
AND all reasonable charges, will be paid for apprehending, and delivering to me, in Caroline county, State of Virginia, 14 miles below the town of Fredericksburg, A Negro Man Slave named RALPH, who ranaway about the 1st of November last, who was apprehended and committed to the jail of Adams county, in the State of Pennsylvania in April last, on suspicion of his being a runaway, and was discharged by the Court of Common Pleas, at Gettysburg, on Tuesday the 29th of May, 1810, no person appearing to claim him. He was afterwards apprehended and committed to said jail as a runaway on an advertisement in the National Intelligencer, describing him--and on the 30th day of last month made his escape over the jail wall.
--RALPH is of a dark complexion, between 30 and 40 years of age, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, two of his upper fore teeth out, and has a large scar on the outside of his right leg, occasioned by the cut of a scythe. He is an artful cunning fellow, and I expect when accosted will shew a discharge from the Prothonotary of Adams county for John Scott and Robert Wheeler, which last name he passed by when first apprehended, which said discharge is signed by James Duncan, Esquire, Prothonotary, with the County seal affixed thereto, and dated the 1st day of June, 1810.
--Or I will give a reward of 40 dollars for securing him in jail so that I get him when called for, and information given me by letter directed to the "Post-Office, Villesbro', Caroline County, Va." It is probable he will aim for Philadelphia or Baltimore.
--As to his cloathing it is not remembered--He is a good sawyer, a rough Carpenter and Shoemaker, but has been accustomed to labour on a farm.
--All masters of vessels are forbid carrying him off, and all persons from employing said slave.
MARK C. WOODFORD. July 24, 1810.
Source: "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection. Used by permission.
- Slaveholder Name: Not specified--near Littlestown
City or Township: Littlestown
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: Jacob Winrott placed the following ad seeking the owner of a horse that was seized from a runaway slave captured near Littlestown:
ADVERTISEMENT. WAS taken out of the custody of a Negro man, named LEONARD, who was apprehended as a Runaway and confessed he belonged to a certain Mr. George Colbert, near Bladensburg, Maryland,
A small Bay Horse, about 14 hands high, low in flesh, two hind feet white; about six or seven years old, and shod before, &c. The owner is desired to come, prove property, pay charges and take him away, by me
JACOB WINROTT, Littlestown, Adams county,
February 16, 1813.
Source: "Runaway Ads, Gettysburg, PA Newspapers," compiled by Alisha Sanders. Unpublished research collection. Used by permission.
- Slaveholder Name: Agnew, James, Sr.
City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: Assessed for "one slave" in 1802.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not known
Sex: Not specified
Age: Not specified
Date of Birth: Prior to 1802
Status: Not known
Description: "slave"
Notes:
Date of Record: 1802
Source: History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
- Slaveholder Name: Agnew, James, Jr.
City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: Assessed for "one slave" in 1802.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not known
Sex: Not specified
Age: Not specified
Date of Birth: Prior to 1802
Status: Not known
Description: "slave"
Notes:
Date of Record: 1802
Source: History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
- Slaveholder Name: Bender, Peter
City or Township: Berwick Township
County: Adams County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nelly
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 11 February 1808
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: 03 May 1808
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Black, James
City or Township: Franklin Township
County: Adams County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Maria Norris
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1811, April; County clerk's notation for "When Born" was "middle of April 1811."
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Mulatoe"
Notes:
Date of Record: 10 July 1811
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Branden, Eleazar
City or Township: Huntington Township
County: York County (now Adams County)
Occupation:
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jim
Sex: Male
Age: "about 13 or 14 years of age"
Date of Birth: circa 1784 or 1785
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Negro Boy"
Notes: Jim escaped from Branden on August 11th, 1798. Branden published the following escape notice in an attempt to find him:
Ten Dollars Reward.
RAN-AWAY from the subscriber, in Huntington township, York county, on the night of the 11th instant, a Negro Boy, named JIM, about 13 or 14 years of age, well grown, pretty black, and is active and cunning --
His dress when he went away, was a dirty shirt and trowsers, a half worn wool hat, and no shoes. Whoever takes up and secures him, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward.
ELEAZAR BRANDEN.
August 13th, 1798.
Date of Record: 13 August 1798
Source: The Pennsylvania Herald and York General Advertiser, 15 August 1798.
- Slaveholder Name: Brough, Peter
City or Township: Berwick Township
County: Adams County
Occupation: Miller
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Phebe
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1807, March 17
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: August 18, 1807
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Charles
Sex: Male
Age: Three months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 04 January 1809
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: 17 April 1809
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Brown, Andrew
City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
County: Adams County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: Andrew Brown was assessed for one slave in 1802. That slave is not listed below.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Grace
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 16 March 1803
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: 23 June 1803
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Joe
Sex: Male
Age: Five months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 17 November 1804
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: 27 April 1805
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Joshua
Sex: Male
Age: Four months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 12 November 1807
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: 28 March 1808
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Brown, Richard
City or Township: Straban Township
County: Adams County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: Brown's laxity in providing exact dates of birth for his enslaved children was in violation of the requirement for registration. The registrations noted below for Tom, Betty, Rosanna, Nero, Orlando, Jem and Sam would probably not have withstood a legal challenge had the enslaved persons sued for their freedom.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: Four months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: "latter end of Augt or beginning of Sept last." (1801), per clerk's notation
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes: The clerk's notation for "When Born" is "latter end of Augt or beginning of Sept last."
Date of Record: 24 December 1801
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Betty
Sex: Female
Age: About two months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: "last week in May last." (1802)
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes: The County clerk's notation for "When Born" was "last week in May last."
Date of Record: 10 August 1802
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: John
Sex: Male
Age: Five months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 25 April 1803
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: 11 October 1803
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Rosanna
Sex: Female
Age: Four months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: "last week in Apl 1804."
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes: County clerk's notation for "When Born" was "last week in Apl 1804."
Date of Record: 01 September 1804
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Nero
Sex: Male
Age: Three months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: "last week in Sept. 1805."
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes: County clerk's notation for "When Born" was "last week in Sept. 1805."
Date of Record: 13 January 1806
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Orlando
Sex: Male
Age: Four months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: "abt 15th Sept. 1808."
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes: County clerk's notation for "When Born" was "abt 15th Sept. 1808."
Date of Record: 18 January 1809
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Jem
Sex: Male
Age: Two months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: "latter end of Feby 1810."
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes: County clerk's notation for "When Born" was "latter end of Feby 1810."
Date of Record: 10 May 1810
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
Sex: Male
Age: Three months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1812, May 4 or 5
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes: County clerk's notation for "When Born" was "4 or 5th May 1812."
Date of Record: 22 August 1812
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Campbell, Armstrong
City or Township: Straban Township
County: Adams County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Samuel
Sex: Male
Age: One month old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1816, October 24 or 25
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: December 14, 1816
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Carnahan, Alexander
City or Township: Hamilton Bann Township
County: Adams County
Occupation: Cooper
Notes:Alex Carnahan was assessed for one slave in 1802. That slave is not listed below.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dine
Sex: Female
Age: One month old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1802, January 03
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Mulattoe"
Notes:
Date of Record: February 06, 1802
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: George
Sex: Male
Age: One month old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1803, February 05
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: March 07, 1804
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Philip
Sex: Male
Age: One month old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1809, January 18
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: February 24, 1809
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Chamberlain, Neiman
City or Township: Mount Pleasant Township
County: Adams County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Fene (or Tene)
Sex: Female
Age: Five days old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1807, February 13
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: February 18, 1807
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Clark, John
City or Township: Liberty Township
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: Assessed for "one negro" in 1801, valued at $120.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not known
Sex: Not specified
Age: Not specified
Date of Birth:Prior to 1801
Status: Not known
Description: "Negro"
Notes: Valued at $120 in 1801.
Date of Record:1801
Source: History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
- Slaveholder Name: Cobean, Samuel
City or Township: Franklin Township
County: Adams County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes: With the Registration of Dinah in 1807, Cobean's township was listed as Cumberland. Cobean was assessed for two slaves, valued at $160, in 1799. Neither of those enslaved persons are listed below. The Septennial Census of 1800 lists two taxable slaves (slaves between the ages of 12 and 45) with Cobean: a male slave "above age 45," and a female slave, "aged 30."
- Enslaved Person's Name: Hagey
Sex: Female
Age: Five months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1799, November 05
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: April 14, 1800
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Doll
Sex: Female
Age: Two months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1802, August 03
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: October 12, 1802
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: Three months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1804, September 30
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: January 14, 1805
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Enslaved Person's Name: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: Three months old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1806, September 25
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Black"
Notes:
Date of Record: February 16, 1807
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Cochran, James
City or Township: Liberty Township
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: Assessed for "one negro" in 1801, valued at $190.
- Enslaved Person's Name:Name not known
Sex: Not specified
Age: Not specified
Date of Birth: Prior to 1801
Status:Not known
Description: "Negro"
Notes:Valued at $190 in 1801.
Date of Record: 1801
Source: History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886.
- Slaveholder Name: Cooper, William
City or Township: Mount Pleasant Township
County: Adams County
Occupation: Farmer
Notes:
- Enslaved Person's Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: One month old at Registration.
Date of Birth: 1806, August 18
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: "Molattoe"
Notes:
Date of Record: October 02, 1806
Source: Adams County Record of Children Born to Slaves
- Slaveholder Name: Cross, Samuel
City or Township: Franklin Township
County: Adams County
Occupation:
Notes: Assessed for one slave in 1799, valued at $75.
- Enslaved Person's Name: Name not known
Sex: Female
Age: "above age 45" in 1800
Date of Birth: before 1755 (estimated from 1800 Septennial Census)
Status: Slave for life
Description: "slave"
Notes: Valued at $75 in 1799
Dates of Record: 1799, 1800
Sources: History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part III, History of Adams County, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. | Septennial Census Returns, 1779-1863; Roll No. 1, Adams County, 1800-Cumberland County, 1800. Reel No. 0242. Microfilm in the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg Pennsylvania.
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