Slaveholders Listed on this Page
- Neely, William (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Nelson, Robert (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Patterson, George (Enslaved persons: Three unnamed slaves)
- Patterson, James (Enslaved persons: Four unnamed slaves)
- Patterson, James, Jr. (Enslaved persons: Two unnamed slaves)
- Patterson, Jean (Enslaved persons: Three unnamed slaves)
- Patterson, John (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Patterson, William --Milford Twp (Enslaved persons: Three unnamed slaves)
- Patterson, William --Fermanagh Twp (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Pollock, Charles (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Poltney, Joseph (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Poltney, Thomas (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Sterrett, William (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Stewart, George (Enslaved persons: Three unnamed slaves)
- Stewart, George, Widow of (Enslaved persons: Two unnamed slaves)
- Stewart, John --Milford Twp. (Enslaved persons: Two unnamed slaves)
- Stewart, John --Fermanagh Twp. (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Tardevance, Peter (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Taylor, Robert (Enslaved persons: Unnamed mulatto slave)
- Watson, John (Enslaved persons: Two unnamed slaves)
- Wilson, George (Enslaved persons: Two unnamed slaves)
- Wilson, Thomas (Enslaved persons: One unnamed slave)
- Wright, Jacob (Enslaved persons: Unnamed Mulatto Boy)
Enslavement data
- Slaveholder Name: Neely, William
City or Township: Lack (Milford) Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed in 1792 for one Negro slave valued at £7.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Nelson, Robert
City or Township: Fermanagh Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed in 1768-1770 and in
1785-1788 for one Negro slave. The value of the slave in 1769 was £ 4. The value of the single slave in 1785 was £30 and in 1788 was £25.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Patterson, George
City or Township: Fermanagh Township
Occupation: "Esquire"
Notes: Taxed in 1788-1791 for one Negro slave, valued at £20. Patterson was taxed for two slaves from 1792-1806 and for three slaves in 1808. The value of the two slaves in 1792 was £25 each. In 1799 they were valued at $60 each and in 1806 at $25 each. The value of all three slaves in 1808 totaled $100.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Patterson, James
City or Township: Fermanagh Township
Occupation: Captain
Notes: Taxed in 1767-1769 for four Negro slaves. Captain Patterson was taxed for three slaves in 1770 and one slave in 1771. The value of the four slaves in 1769 was
£16.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Patterson, James, Jr.
City or Township: Fermanagh Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed in 1782-1789 for a Negro "wench." Taxed in 1787 for two Negro slaves. The value of the single slave "wench" in 1783 was £15 and in 1789 was £45. The two slaves were valued at £60 in 1787.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679
- Slaveholder Name: Patterson, Jean
City or Township: Fermanagh Township
Occupation: Widow of Captain James Patterson
Notes: Taxed in 1772-1783 and again in 1795-1804 for one Negro slave. In the years 1779 and 1783 she was taxed for two Negro slaves. The single slave in 1804 was listed as "an invalid." The value of the two slaves in 1779 was £100 each. Values assessed for the slaves were: 1781, £20; 1783, £45; 1795, £15;
1799, $60 for each of the two, and in 1804, $50.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679
- Slaveholder Name: Patterson, John
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation: Merchant
Notes: Taxed in 1804 for one Negro slave, valued at $30.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Patterson, William
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation: Esquire
Notes: Taxed in 1767-1769 for two Negro slaves, and in 1770 for three Negro slaves. The value of the two slaves in 1769 was set at £8.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Patterson, William
City or Township: Fermanagh Township
Occupation: Esquire
Notes: Taxed in 1771-1772 for one Negro slave.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Pollock, Charles
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed in 1773 for one Negro slave.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Poltney, Joseph
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed in 1773, and again in 1783-1787 for one Negro slave. The value of the slaves was set at £35 in 1783, £25 in 1785, and £22 10s in 1787. Surname also spelled Poultney.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Poltney, Thomas
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed in 1782 for one Negro slave, valued at £50.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Sterrett, William
City or Township: Milford Township / Fermanagh Twp (home)
Occupation: Ironmaster, Freedom Forge, Beale and Sterrett Company
Notes: Taxed in 1792-1799 for one Negro slave. That slave was valued at £3 in 1792, £10 in 1794, £30 in 1796, and £10 in 1798 and 1799.
A slave for which Sterrett was taxed in 1789 and again in 1802 was "struck off at appeal" and "taxed to Beale & Sterrett at the forge in Milford." That valuation was £45 in 1789.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Stewart, George
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed for one Negro slave in 1775-1778, for three Negro slaves in 1779-1782, and for two Negro slaves in 1783-1787. His widow was taxed for two slaves from 1788-1790. The three slaves in 1779 were valued at £600, and in 1781 at £240. Two slaves, held by Stewart in 1783, were valued at £100. By 1787 their value had dropped to £50. Historian A. L. Guss, writing in the source below, notes that the single slave owned by George Stewart "is the ancestor of Robert Johnson, colored, now living in Beale."
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Stewart, George, widow of
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation: Widow
Notes: Taxed for two Negro slaves from 1788-1790. The two slaves in 1789 were valued at £40, and in 1790 at £30.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Stewart, John
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed for one Negro slave from 1791-1803 and for two Negro slaves in 1804. He was taxed for "a girl" in 1809. The two slaves in 1789 were valued at
£40, and in 1790 at £30. The value of the single Negro slave in 1791 was set at £20 and in 1796 at £90. The value for two Negro slaves in 1804 was set at $100. The value of the single Negro girl, in 1809, was set at $20.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Stewart, John
City or Township: Fermanagh Township
Occupation: Esquire
Notes: Taxed in 1824 for one Negro slave valued at $25.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Tardevance, Peter
City or Township: Fermanagh Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed in 1780 for one Negro slave.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Taylor, Robert
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed for one Mulatto slave from 1783-1798, valued at £20.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Watson, John
City or Township: Fermanagh Township
Occupation: Esquire
Notes: Taxed in 1808 for two Negro slaves, valued at $75.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Wilson, George
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed for two Negro slaves, valued at $80, in 1804.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Slaveholder Name: Wilson, Thomas
City or Township: Milford Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed for one Negro slave from 1779-1796. The value of the slave was set at £150 in 1779, at £60 in 1781, at £25 in 1785, at
£12 in 1790, and at £90 in 1796.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
- Enslaved Person's Name Name not given in document
Age: "about 24 years old"
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: circa 1762
Description: "Negro Wench"
Status: Slave for life
Notes: Advertised for sale in June 1786 along with a real estate parcel. Full text of ad below:
To be Sold,
A Valuable Tract of LAND, in Fermanaugh township, on the river Juniata, above the mouth of Tuskarora, joining lands of James Taylor, Samuel Davidson and Andrew Colhoon, with a valuable improvement thereon, a large quantity of meadow, and a good orchard; containing 302 acres:
The terms will be easy to the purchaser, one third in hand and the remainder in three yearly payments, the title is indisputable. Also a young healthy Negro Wench, about 24 years old, who is registered, and sold for no fault. For terms apply to the subscriber near the premises. THOMAS WILSON.
June 2, 1786.
Date of Record 02 June 1786
Source: The Carlisle Gazette, and the Western Repository of Knowledge, 07 June 1786.
- Slaveholder Name: Wright, Jacob
City or Township: Fermanagh Township
Occupation:
Notes: Taxed in 1806, 1811, 1812, 1820 and 1824 for a "mulatto boy." This slave was valued at $30 in 1806, at $60 in 1811, at $150 in 1812 and at $200 in 1820.
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1886, pp 678-679.
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