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Lancaster County Septennial Census of 1800

Listing of Slaveholders or Slaves

The State of Pennsylvania took an enumeration of taxable inhabitants every seven years. Known as the Septennial Census, this enumeration also listed slaves in each county, by township, for some of the years. The amount of information on the slaves varies. Some townships list the names of the slaves, others give only age and sex.

Few slaves younger than 20 are listed, indicating that only the slaves born before November 1780 were enumerated, they being considered "Slaves for Life." Children of slaves born after that date were to be freed upon their 28th birthday, according to the Gradual Emancipation Act of 1780. These children, although held in bondage for 28 years, were officially called "servants," and often not counted in tax and census listings as slaves.

TownshipsOriginal spellings are preserved from the primary document.
Lancaster Borough 15 Slaves Salisbury 12 Slaves Bart 2 Slaves
Cocalico 1 Slave Strasburg 5 Slaves Carnarvan 9 Slaves
Earl 5 Slaves Dromore 16 Slaves Sadsbury 3 Slaves
Leacock 4 Slaves Little Britain 10 Slaves Colerain 2 Slaves
Lampeter 2 Slaves Martick 4 Slaves Elizabeth 1 Slave
Conestoga 4 Slaves Mount Joy 4 Slaves Donegall 16 Slaves
Statistics and Source

Lancaster County

"List of the Slaves Owned by persons within the County of Lancaster."

 

Lancaster Borough Slaveholders and Slaves

Anspach, Frederick
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 60
Bausman, John
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 36
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 23
Boyd, Samuel
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 50
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 50
Cunningham, John
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 26
Dosh, George
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 30
Edwards, Susanna
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 36
Krug, Jacob
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 60
Miesson, George
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 32
Reigart, Adam
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 50
Gough, Matthias
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 30
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 66
Yeates, Jasper
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 50
Dantzinger, Paul
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 26

Cocalico Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Cornman, John, Doctr
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 32
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Earl Township Slaves

No slaveholder names are listed for Earl Township.
  1. Joseph, male slave, age 31
  2. Caeser, male slave, age 40
  3. Sam, male slave, age 31
  4. Leman, female slave, age 38
  5. Venus, female slave, age 52

Leacock Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Hains, Samuel
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 26
Moore, William
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 27
Watson, David
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 28
Caldwell, Andrew
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 40

Lampeter Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Hand, Edward
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 30
Crawford, David
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 32
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Conestoga Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Breneman, Henry
  1. Caeser, male slave, age 23
Bare, Jacob
  1. Solomon, male slave, age 35
Steman, Tobias
  1. John, male slave, age 36
Kendig, Widow
  1. Dick, male slave, age 70

Salisbury Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Whitehill, John, Esq.
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 26
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 31
McCurdy, Adam
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 25
  2. No name returned, male slave, age 22
  3. No name returned, female slave, age 50
Anderson, James
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 30
Henderson, Thomas
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 23
Yeates, John
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 30
Clemson, James
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 50
Henderson, Archibald
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 50
Henderson, James
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 47
Henderson, Matthew
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 21

Strasburg Slaveholders and Slaves

Sample, Nathaniel
  1. Priest, male slave, age 30
Wither, Michael
  1. James, male slave, age 60
  2. Phillis, female slave, age 58
Wither, John
  1. Din, female slave, age 35
Wither, George
  1. Peg, female slave, age 25
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Drumore Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Calhoon, William
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 45
Evans, David
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 20
Barns, James
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 45
Ankrim, Archibald
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 60
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 30
Moore, James
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 67
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 22
Morrison, James
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 50
  2. No name returned, male slave, age 30
McIntier, William
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 30
  2. No name returned, male slave, age 20
  3. No name returned, female slave, age 20
Maxwell, Robert
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 50

Little Britain Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Caldwell, Oliver
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 40
Patterson, James
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 50
  2. No name returned, male slave, age 25
  3. No name returned, male slave age 23
Patterson, Thomas
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 60
Porter, Andrew
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 45
  2. No name returned, male slave, age 30
Porter, William
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 40
Stubbs, Vincent
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 30
Scott, John
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 25

Martick Township Slaves

No slaveholder names are listed for Martick Township.
  1. Samy, male slave, age 45
  2. Bob, male slave, age 35
  3. Charles, male slave, age 30
  4. Tom, male slave, age 28
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Mount Joy Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Moorehead, James
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 50
Robinson, Jane
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 30
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 45
Coleman, Robert
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 35

Bart Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Kunckel, William
  1. Silvia, female slave, age 57
McClure, John
  1. Bett, female slave, age 24

Carnarvan Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Jacobs, Cyrus
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 70
  2. No name returned, male slave, age 30
  3. No name returned, female slave, age 70
Evans, Joshua
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 26 1/2
  2. No name returned, male slave, age 70
  3. No name returned, female slave, age 60
Evans, James, Sr.
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 36
Evans, John
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 27
Evans, William
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 25

Sadsbury Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Walker, Joseph
  1. Dill, male slave, age 43
Tweed, James
  1. Sieb, male slave, age 33
Thompson, Nathan
  1. Hannah, female slave, age 60

Colerain Township Slaves

No slaveholder names are listed for Colerain Township.
  1. George, male slave, age 45
  2. Peter, male slave, age 23

Elizabeth Township Slaveholders and Slaves

Coleman, Robert
  1. Elizabeth, female slave, age 29
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Donegal Township slaveholders and Slaves

Clark, Brice
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 21
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 24
Work, James
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 30
Work, Widow
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 28
Anderson, James
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 30
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 24
Buchanan, Widow
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 36
Watson, John
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 28
Bailey, Thomas
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 24
Galbraith, Bartram
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 23
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 25
Keys, Richard
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 40
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 37
Bogs, Alexander
  1. No name returned, female slave, age 21
Cook, Samuel
  1. No name returned, male slave, age 23
  2. No name returned, female slave, age 21

Statistics and Source

Total number of slaves enumerated: 115.
Total number of slaveholders enumerated: 78. Note: Several townships did not list the slaveholders, so the actual number is higher.
Average (mean) age of slaves: 37.4 years. Forty-three of the 115 slaves enumerated, or 34.8%, are aged 40 or above. This figure represents the average age of the adult slave population only, as no slave under age twenty is listed. Slave children are not enumerated in this census.
Oldest enumerated slave: 70 years. Four slaves are listed as being 70 years old, three of them, all un-named, in Carnarvan Township. The fourth is Dick, a male slave owned by the Widow Kendig in Conestoga Township. The year of birth for these slaves, if their listed age is accurate, would be 1730.
Source: Septennial Census Returns, 1779-1863; Roll No. 3, Franklin County, 1828-Lancaster County, 1800. Reel No. 0244. Microfilm in the Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg PA.

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