Enslavement in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Hercules
   Sex: Male
   Age: "Aged fifty four Years"
   Date of Birth: 1726 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe Man"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

2. Enslaved Person's Name: Ned
   Sex: Male
   Age: "Aged thirty Years"
   Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

3. Enslaved Person's Name: Simon
   Sex: Male
   Age: "Aged seventeen Years"
   Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

4. Enslaved Person's Name: Moses
   Sex: Male
   Age: "Aged thirteen Years"
   Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

5. Enslaved Person's Name: Maria
   Sex: Female
   Age: "Aged forty Years"
   Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe Woman"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

6. Enslaved Person's Name: Dab
   Sex: Not determined
   Age: "Aged eight Years"
   Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

7. Enslaved Person's Name: Phillip
   Sex: Male
   Age: "Aged two Years three Months and fifteen Days"
   Date of Birth: 1778, July 16 (calculated)
   Status: "a Slave for thirty one years"
   Description: "Mulattoe Boy"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 31 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
   Sex: Female
   Age: Not known, but an adult in 1814
   Date of Birth: Not known
   Status: Slave to the age of 28 years (extended four additional years by court order)
   Description: "negress wench" in court documents, and "female mulattoe servant" in the registration of her child, Clara.
   Notes: Mother of Clara, a "female mulattoe child" born 21 August 1814. Mother of Clarissa, born 3 August, 1817. Hannah was purchased in 1812 from John Blair of Huntingdon County, for $72 by Judge Jonathan Walker of Bedford Borough. Judge Walker successfully petitioned the court for a two year extension of the time of servitude for Hannah as a consequence of having given birth to Clara. He subsequently did the same thing following the birth of Clarissa. See the text of court documents, below:

   Documents concerning the birth of Clara:
   To the honable Judge of the court of Quarter Sessions--The Petition of the undersigned himself sheweth that some time in the year 1812 your petitioner purchased a negress wench in Huntingdon County of John Blair of the name of Hannah who was duly recorded as a servant to the age of 28 & paid the full price of $72 for the said wench to the said John Blair as trustee for W^m Galbraith. That the time of service of the said servant has not yet expired. That on or about the 21st day of August last the said Hannah being a single unmarried woman had a bastard female child which is still alive. Your petitioner therefore prays that an order may be made by your Honble court upon the said Hannah to appear forthwith in Court to show cause if any she hath why her time of Servitude should not be enlarged after the expiration of her time of Servitude aforesaid. Not exceeding two years nor less than one according to the provisions of the 7^th Section of an Act of the Gen^l assembly aforesaid of the 1st March 1780 printed in [word unreadable] Titles Fornication & Negroes, as a compensation to your Petitioner for the loss & damages he has sustained by [word unreadable] the said wench having born a bastard child in manner aforesaid in the time of her servitude aforesaid & your Petitioner as is duty bound will ever pray.
   [signed] Jonathan Walker

   5^th April 1815 petition read and Rule upon the said Hannah to appear forthwith to shew cause why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted by the Court.
   [signed by clerk]

   April 6th 1815 the said negress appearing before the Court, On hearing the Court order & directs that the within named Negress, shall serve her said master for the time of two years in addition to her present term of service--by reason of the expences incurred, as stated in the within petition.
   [signed by clerk]

   Documents concerning the birth of Clarissa:
   Petition of Jonathan Walker Esq. Nov 5 1817
   November Sessions 1817
   Asking for extension of time of servitude of Hannah.
   (Extracts)
   *Hannah was purchased in Huntingdon County in 1812, of John Blair, trustee for William Galbraith, for $72.
   *The time of servitude of said Hannah had already been extended in April 1815 by two years by the court of Quarter Sessions.
   *That said Hannah, "being a single & unmarried woman had a bastard female child called Clarissa."

   Bedford County[.] Jonathan Walker Esq^r being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he served the within copy of a rule of this Court on the within named Hanna, this day by reading the same to her--and further saith that he offered to furnish her with money to employ counsel--to which the said Hannah answered that she believed she would not come into Court that it was unnecessary. Sworn and subscribed in open Court Nov. 1817.

   November 6^th 1817 on hearing the Court order & direct that the said Negress Hannah serve her said master the term of two years, in addition to her time."

   Date of Records: (Clara) April Sessions, 1815; (Clarissa) November Sessions 1817
   Source: Bedford County Misc Slave Records Circa 1780-1834

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Robert
   Sex: Male
   Age: Infant at registration
   Date of Birth: November 1785
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Negro"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 22 December 1800
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Dina
   Sex: Female
   Age: "About eight Years old"
   Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe Girl"
   Notes: Text of Registration: "Huntingdon the 27^th Octb. 1780
   Dear Sir
   [word unreadable] I am informed all the Negroes ar to be Recorded against the first of Novbr. if it is so pray hasten a garl of mine Her name is Dina about Eight years old My caling I cant inform you." (source: Bedford County Misc Slave Records Circa 1780-1834)
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Joseph
   Sex: Male
   Age: Infant at registration
   Date of Birth: April 1786
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Negro"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 5 January 1789
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Violet Strickland
   Sex: Female
   Age: Infant at registration
   Date of Birth: 10 May 1786
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Mulatta"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 30 March 1789
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

2. Enslaved Person's Name: Sal
   Sex: Female
   Age: Infant at registration
   Date of Birth: 3 August 1789
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Negro girl"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 30 March 1789
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Ham
   Sex: Male
   Age: Not determined
   Date of Birth: Not determined
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negro man"
   Notes: Appears in estate inventory following death of Robert Cluggage in 1787; valued at £100.
   Date of Record: 1787
   Source: "Cluggage family of Huntingdon County PA 1725 forward," posting by John Clancy, Ancestry.com message board, 3 October 2001.

2. Enslaved Person's Name: Joe
   Sex: Male
   Age: Not determined
   Date of Birth: Not determined
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negro boy"
   Notes: Appears in estate inventory following death of Robert Cluggage in 1787; valued at £15.
   Date of Record: 1787
   Source: "Cluggage family of Huntingdon County PA 1725 forward," posting by John Clancy, Ancestry.com message board, 3 October 2001.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Not named
   Sex: Not indicated
   Age: Not indicated
   Date of Birth: Not indicated
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Slave"
   Notes: The 1795 tax assessment for Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, shows Cromwell had property including one slave.
   Date of Record: 1795
   Source: "1795 Tax List, Shirley Township," by Ken Boonie, on Huntingdon County, PA USGenWeb Project, http://www.rootsweb.com/~pahuntin/1795shirley.htm, accessed 10 October 2006.

2. Enslaved Person's Name: Tom
   Sex: Male
   Age: "about 25 years of age"
   Date of Birth: circa 1769
   Status: Escaped, June 1794
   Description: "Negro Man"
   Notes: Previously owned by William Allison of Greencastle, from whom Tom escaped multiple times. Tom escaped from Bedford Furnace on June 8, 1794. Cromwell placed the following ad in local newspapers to recover him:

   Twenty Dollars Reward.
   RAN-AWAY from the Bedford Furnace on the night of Sunday the 8th instant, a Negro Man named TOM, he is about 25 years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, and well made, has a sour countenance, and a down look, he had on & took with him when he went away a sailors jacket of grey coating, one under vest of striped silk and cotton, a pair of cotton stockings, two new shirts of country linen, one pair of tow linen trousers, a felt hat about half worn, old shoes half soaled, but he may have other cloaths with him of which no doubt he will change.
   He was purchased by the subscriber in April last from Mr. William Allison, near Greencastle, but will most likely direct his course towards Philadelphia or Baltimore, and endeavor to pass for a feeman. Any person apprehending said fellow and securing him in any jail, if within 50 miles shall be entitled to the above reward, and in proportion to any greater or lesser distance, and reasonable expences if brought home.
   THOMAS CROMWELL.
   Bedford Furnace, 9th June, 1794.

   Date of Record: 09 June 1794
   Source: Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette, 18 June 1794.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Rachel
   Sex: Female
   Age: "About twenty five & a half Years old"
   Date of Birth: circa April 1755
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe Wench"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

2. Enslaved Person's Name: Sam
   Sex: Male
   Age: "About four and a half years old"
   Date of Birth: circa April 1776
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Mulattoe Boy"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

3. Enslaved Person's Name: George
   Sex: Male
   Age: "About one year old"
   Date of Birth: circa 1779
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Mulattoe Boy"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Ned
   Sex: Male
   Age: Infant at registration
   Date of Birth: April 1786
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Negro"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 29 March 1789
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Ham
   Sex: Male
   Age: 24
   Date of Birth: 1756
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negro"
   Notes: Registered in Bedford.
   Date of Record: 26 October 1780
   Source: Young, Cory James. "A Just and True Return: Pennsylvania’s Surviving County Slave Registries, 1780-1826." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.25971/QS08-YE30. Accessed 20 February 2025.

2. Enslaved Person's Name: Soph
   Sex: Female
   Age: 19
   Date of Birth: 1761
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negro"
   Notes: Registered in Bedford.
   Date of Record: 26 October 1780
   Source: Young, Cory James. "A Just and True Return: Pennsylvania’s Surviving County Slave Registries, 1780-1826." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.25971/QS08-YE30. Accessed 20 February 2025.

3. Enslaved Person's Name: Alexander
   Sex: Male
   Age: Five years old at registration
   Date of Birth: October 1783
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Negro"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: March 1789
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Hannah
   Sex: Female
   Age: Infant at registration
   Date of Birth: 25 May 1788
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Mulatto"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 24 October 1788
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

2. Enslaved Person's Name: Mave
   Sex: Female
   Age: Infant at registration
   Date of Birth: 29 September 1795
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Mulatto girl"
   Notes: Daughter of Sall (see below). Recorded in Quarter Session records as "November Sessions 1795.
   "On the 5th day of December 1795 William Holliday, Sen'r entered on record according to law a Mulatto girl named Mave born on the twenty ninth day of September last of Sall a Negro Woman Slave of the said William Holliday the elder."
   Date of Record: 05 December 1795
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

3. Enslaved Person's Name: Sall
   Sex: Female
   Age: About 29 years old in 1795, based upon her reported age of 14 when registered by Holliday in 1780.
   Date of Birth: circa 1766
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negro Woman Slave"
   Notes: Mother of Mave (see above), born on 29 September 1795. Recorded in Huntingdon County Quarter Session records as "November Sessions 1795: "On the 5th day of December 1795 William Holliday, Sen'r entered on record according to law a Mulatto girl named Mave born on the twenty ninth day of September last of Sall a Negro Woman Slave of the said William Holliday the elder."
   Date of Record: 05 December 1795
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Name not given in source
   Sex: Male
   Age: Age not specified but described as a "boy." If this person was being held to the common term of 28 years of enslavement, his age in 1799 would have been 15.
   Date of Birth: If enslaved for 28 years, his year of birth would have been 1784.
   Status: Slave for a term of years, with thirteen years remaining
   Description: "Negro Boy"
   Notes: Offered for sale: "To be Sold, THE TIME OF A NEGRO BOY, Who has thirteen years to serve; he is Strong and Healthy, and would suit well to be upon a farm. John Johnston. Huntingdon, 4th Dec. 1799."
   Date of Record: 04 December 1799
   Source: Oracle of Dauphin and Harrisburgh Advertiser, 16 December 1799.

To Mr. David Espy Co Clk
Sir I desire you wold be pleas^d To Enter my Negroes in your Dock^t. acording to the act of asembly
I have five Gown Negroes and two young ones to wit Molatoes. No more to [word unreadable] but remane yor Very humble svt.
Hen Lloyd
Huntingdon october 27 1780
Sambo about 50 James about 32 years
Jacob about 20 philis about 40
Leah a molatoe about 24
Briget about 2 years old
Cubit an infant 1 Day old

1. Enslaved Person's Name: James
   Sex: Male
   Age: "About thirty two Years old"
   Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe Man"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

2. Enslaved Person's Name: Jacob
   Sex: Male
   Age: "About twenty Years old"
   Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe Man"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

3. Enslaved Person's Name: Phillis
   Sex: Female
   Age: "About forty Years old"
   Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe Woman"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

4. Enslaved Person's Name: Leah
   Sex: Female
   Age: "About twenty one Years old"
   Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Mulattoe Woman"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

5. Enslaved Person's Name: Sambo
   Sex: Male
   Age: "About fifty Years old"
   Date of Birth: 1730 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Negroe Man"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

6. Enslaved Person's Name: Briget
   Sex: Female
   Age: "About two Years old"
   Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Mulattoe Girl"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

7. Enslaved Person's Name: Cubit
   Sex: Male
   Age: "About one Day old"
   Date of Birth: 27 October, 1780
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Mulattoe Boy"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 28 October, 1780
   Source: Bedford County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Record of Negro and Mulatto Slaves

8. Enslaved Person's Name: Champion
   Sex: Not determined
   Age: Three months old at registration
   Date of Birth: December 1788
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Yellow Negro"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 30 March 1789
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

9. Enslaved Person's Name: Phoebe
   Sex: Female
   Age: One year and nine months old at registration
   Date of Birth: June 1787
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Negro"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: 30 March 1789
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

10. Enslaved Person's Name: Diana
    Sex: Female
    Age: Three years and nine months old at registration
    Date of Birth: June 1785
    Status: Slave to age 28
    Description: "Negro"
    Notes:
    Date of Record: 30 March 1789
    Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Andrew
   Sex: Male
   Age: Two months old at Registration
   Date of Birth: August 21, 1795
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Negro male child"
   Notes: Registerd in 1795 in Lancaster County by Col. Alexander Lowry. Registration notes "son of negro Jane," a female slave. Ownership of Andrew was transferred to Alexander Lowry, of Frankstown, Huntingdon County, sometime before 1819. He ran away from his new owner on Christmas Day, 1818. Alexander Lowry, of Frankstown ran the following ad to reclaim Andrew:

   30 Dollars Reward.
   RAN away from the subscriber, living in Frankstown township, Huntingdon conty, Pa. on Saturday the 25th of December last, a Mulatto man named
   ANDREW.
   He is either 23 or 24 years of age, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, clumsy made, his nose very much scarred and broken in by a kick of a horse when young. Had on when he went away, a pair of black thick cloth pantaloons and a coat nearly the same colour, a tow shirt and a wool hat half worn. He is very fond of spiritous liquors, was born in Lancaster county, near Maytown, his former master was Col. Alexander Lowry, deceased, who lived between Maytown and Anderson's Ferry, his mother also belonged to Col. Lowry--she may be still living and probably he has gone in that neighborhood in search of her, or to Lampeter township, in the neighborhood of Messars. Denlinger and Brua. He is recorded in the Lancaster Recording Office. The above reward and all reasonable charges will be paid to any person or persons for apprehending him and confining him in the Jail of the county where he may be taken. Information for the subscriber will be thankfully received.
   ALEXANDER LOWRY
   Frankstown, Jan. 21.

   Date of Record: 21 January 1819
   Sources: "A RECORD of the returns made in writing and delivered to me…"; Lancaster Journal, 29 January 1819.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Not named
   Sex: Not indicated
   Age: Not indicated
   Date of Birth: Not indicated
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Slave"
   Notes: The 1793 tax assessment for Barree Township, Huntingdon County, shows property including one enslaved person.
   Date of Record: 1793
   Source: "1793 Tax List, Barree Township," by Ken Boonie, on Huntingdon County, PA USGenWeb Project, http://www.rootsweb.com/~pahuntin/1793barree.htm, accessed 10 October 2006.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Not named
   Sex: Not indicated
   Age: Not indicated
   Date of Birth: Not indicated
   Status: Slave for life
   Description: "Slave"
   Notes: The 1793 tax assessment for Barree Township, Huntingdon County, shows property including one enslaved person.
   Date of Record: 1793
   Source:  "1793 Tax List, Barree Township," by Ken Boonie, on Huntingdon County, PA USGenWeb Project, http://www.rootsweb.com/~pahuntin/1793barree.htm, accessed 10 October 2006.

1. Enslaved Person's Name: Bob
   Sex: Male
   Age: Two years old at registration
   Date of Birth: March 1787
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Mulatto"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: April 1789
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.

2. Enslaved Person's Name: Bill
   Sex: Male
   Age: Infant at registration
   Date of Birth: 24 December 1788
   Status: Slave to age 28
   Description: "Mulatto"
   Notes:
   Date of Record: April 1789
   Source: "The following is a List of the names and ages of Negro & Mulatto Children with the owners names. According to an Act of Assembly passed the 29th day of March A. D. 1789." from "COURT: Extracts from Court Quarter Sessions, 1789-1795, Huntingdon County, PA, "http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/huntingdon/othcourt/1789-1795-court.txt (inactive link); accessed 10 October 2006.