A series of pages exploring
various aspects of enslavement in Pennsylvania

Enslavement in Pennsylvania

Washington County Slaveholders, T - Y

Index of Slaveholders Listed on this Page

1. Tallbott, Richard (Enslaved persons listed: Linda, Dinah, Alexander, Hannah, Elizabeth)
2. Tenhill, John (Enslaved persons listed: Bob)
3. Thomas, Michael (Enslaved persons listed: Sarah, Isaac, Gabriel)
4. Tinnell, John (Enslaved persons listed: Dinah, Tom, Frank, Sampson, Esther, Tapely, Hannah, Jem, Nell, George)
5. Todd, Edward (Enslaved persons listed: George Sharp)
6. Townsend, Daniel (Enslaved persons listed: Boot)
7. Valandigan, George (Enslaved persons listed: Rachel)
8. Vance, Joseph (Enslaved persons listed: Randolph)
9. Vann, Richard (Enslaved persons listed: Tom)
10. Walker, Andrew (Enslaved persons listed: Jean, Lindey, David)
11. Wallace, Francis (Enslaved persons listed: Beller, Ben, Chloe, Mary, Sall, Nell, Jack, Charles, George, Toney, Nan)
12. Wallace, Herbert (Enslaved persons listed: Pegg, Peter, Jack, Maria, Dinah, Frider, Priss, Josiah, Linn [b. 1771], Luce, Rose, Chloe, Riss, Linn [b. 1786], Harkless, Bess, Sen, Robert, Cata, Cato, James, Sam, Peter, Tom)
13. Wallace, John (Enslaved persons listed: Bredget, Patty)
14. Wallace, William (Enslaved persons listed: Samual, Ruche, Jemima, Adam, Elisa, Andrew, Rachell)
15. Waller, Thomas (Enslaved persons listed: George)
16. Ward, Thomas (Enslaved persons listed: Susannah, Andrew, Faebe)
17. Wells, Absolom (Enslaved persons listed: Sam, Mary, Jonathan)
18. Wells, Alexander (Enslaved persons listed: Violet)
19. Wells, Richard (Enslaved persons listed: Chinet, Sally, Elizabeth, James)
20. Wells, Thomas (Enslaved persons listed: Hanna, Easter)
21. West, Edward (Enslaved persons listed: Judith, Bek, Pompy, Cesar, Fan)
22. Wheeler, Charles, Doctor (Enslaved persons listed: Rachell, Daniel, Nero)
23. White, Benjamin (Enslaved persons listed: Hannah)
24. Wickenham, ? (Enslaved persons listed: Jim, Tom, Anthony)
25. Williams, Basil (Enslaved persons listed: Benjamin, Debra, Jenny, Nance, Moses)
26. Williams, Leavon (Enslaved persons listed: Benjamin, Daniel, Luce, Nancy)
27. Williamson, David (Enslaved persons listed: Milly)
28. Wills, Henry (Enslaved persons listed: Sampson)
29. Wills, Richard (Enslaved persons listed: Moses, Dinah, Violet, Rashell, George)
30. Willson, John and George (Enslaved persons listed: Pompey, Sylva, Hannah [b. 1752], Bet, Sam, Basill, Jack, Hannah [b. 1771], Bek, Luce, Harry)
31. Wilson, Hugh (Enslaved persons listed: Nancy, Othello, Dorsey, Jeremiah, Nancy, Frank)
32. Wilson, Joseph (Enslaved persons listed: Essex)
33. Wilson, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Jean)
34. Woods, Henry (Enslaved persons listed: Darcos)
35. Woods, Robert (Enslaved persons listed: Si)
36. Workman, Samuel (Enslaved persons listed: Charity, Nell)
37. Yeates, Elizabeth (Enslaved persons listed: Will)
38. Yeates, Richard (Enslaved persons listed: Simon, Peter, Hannah, Jiubeh)

Enslavement Data

• Slaveholder Name:Tallbott, Richard
  City or Township: Hopewell Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Farmer
  Notes: Surname also spelled Talbert.

  1. Name: Linda
     Sex: Female
     Age: Two months old at Registration.
     Date of Birth: 1789--August 23
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female negro"
     Notes: Text of registration, dated 02 October 1789: "Richard Talbert of Hopewell Township farmer enters a female negro named Linda born 23d day of August 1789. Oath made according to law before Henry Taylor the 2nd October 1789."
     Date of Record: October 02, 1789
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Dinah
     Sex: Female
     Age: Four months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1795--May 12
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Negroe girl"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "Richard Talbott Esquire of Hopewell Township enters of record a negroe girl named Dinah, born the 12th day of May 1795. Oath being made according to law 28th September 1795 Coram David Redick"
     Date of Record: 1795--September 28
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Alexander
     Sex: Male
     Age: Two months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1799--March 17
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "Richard Talbott farmer of Hopewell township enters of record a negro child named Alexander, born on 17th day of March 1799. Oath made according to law this 27th day of May 1799 Coram David Redick."
     Date of Record: May 27, 1799
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: Hannah
     Sex: Female
     Age: 35
     Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Black female"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  5. Name: Elizabeth
     Sex: Female
     Age: 10
     Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Tenhill, John
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Bob
     Sex: Male
     Age: 18
     Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negro Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 19, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Thomas, Michael
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Sarah
     Sex: Female
     Age: 08
     Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Isaac
     Sex: Male
     Age: 06
     Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Gabriel
     Sex: Male
     Age: 06
     Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Tinnell, John
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Dinah
     Sex: Female
     Age: 01
     Date of Birth: 1781 (calculated)
     Status: Not Determined
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Tom
     Sex: Male
     Age: 10
     Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Frank
     Sex: Male
     Age: 07
     Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: Sampson
     Sex: Male
     Age: 02
     Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
     Status: Not Determined
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  5. Name: Esther
     Sex: Female
     Age: Three months old at Registration.
     Date of Birth: 1782, September (calculated)
     Status: Not Determined
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  6. Name: Tapely
     Sex: Male
     Age: 12
     Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  7. Name: Hannah
     Sex: Female
     Age: 30
     Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  8. Name: Jem
     Sex: Male
     Age: 40
     Date of Birth: 1742 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  9. Name: Nell
     Sex: Female
     Age: 07
     Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  10. Name: George
      Sex: Male
      Age: 14
      Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Male negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 31, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Todd, Edward
  City or Township: Somerset Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: George Sharp
     Sex: Male
     Age: Three months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1805--May 28
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Negro male child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "Edward Todd of Somerset township enters of record a negro male child named George Sharp, born May 28, 1805 of Chloe, a slave for life. Sworn Septr. 11. 1805 Coram W McKennan Fees 20 cts paid"
     Date of Record: September 11, 1805
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Townsend, Daniel
  City or Township: Peters Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Boot
     Sex: Male
     Age: 50
     Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census with the notation "for life."
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

• Slaveholder Name: Valandigan, George
  City or Township: Robinson Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Gentleman
  Notes:

  1. Name: Rachel
     Sex: Female
     Age: 23
     Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Woman"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: November 26, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Vance, Joseph
  City or Township: Smith Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Randolph
     Sex: Male
     Age: 18
     Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negro man"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: November 26, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Vann, Richard
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Tom
     Sex: Male
     Age: 24
     Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Mullattoe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 02, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Walker, Andrew
  City or Township: Cecil Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Jean
     Sex: Female
     Age: 03
     Date of Birth: 1797 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Black female"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census with the notation "free at 28 years of age."
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  2. Name: Lindey
     Sex: Female
     Age: 30
     Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
     Status: "free at forty years of age"
     Description: "Black female"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census with the notation "free at forty years of age."
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  3. Name: David
     Sex: Male
     Age: 16
     Date of Birth: 1784 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Black male"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census with the notation "free at 28 years of age."
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

• Slaveholder Name: Wallace, Francis
  City or Township: Fallowfield Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Beller
     Sex: Female
     Age: 35
     Date of Birth: 1747 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Ben
     Sex: Male
     Age: 70
     Date of Birth: 1712 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Chloe
     Sex: Female
     Age: 16
     Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: Mary
     Sex: Female
     Age: 25
     Date of Birth: 1757 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  5. Name: Sall
     Sex: Female
     Age: 40
     Date of Birth: 1742 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  6. Name: Nell
     Sex: Female
     Age: 60
     Date of Birth: 1722 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  7. Name: Jack
     Sex: Male
     Age: 06
     Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  8. Name: Charles
     Sex: Male
     Age: 20
     Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  9. Name: George
     Sex: Female (see note)
     Age: 01
     Date of Birth: 1781 (calculated)
     Status: Not Determined
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes: Transcriptionist Jan Slater notes that the Registry does say "female" for this slave, despite the traditionally male name. The order of listing, last after the other females, tends to reinforce this. However the 1800 Septennial Census for "Wallis, Frances" of "Summerset Township" lists a male Negro slave named George, age 19." That is the only slave listed under that slaveholder's name in that tax enumeration.
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851; "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  10. Name: Toney
      Sex: Male
      Age: 16
      Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Male negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  11. Name: Nan
      Sex: Female
      Age: 17
      Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Female negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Wallace, Herbert
  City or Township: Fallowfield Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Yeoman
  Notes: The oath of registration for the slave Linn in 1789 was made by William Wallace. In the 1800 Septennial Census, Herbert Wallace was listed in Pikerun Township.

  1. Name: Pegg
     Sex: Female
     Age: 05
     Date of Birth: 1777 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Peter
     Sex: Male
     Age: 05
     Date of Birth: 1777 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851; "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  3. Name: Jack
     Sex: Male
     Age: 70
     Date of Birth: 1712 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes: This person appears to be the earliest born slave in this county.
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: Murrear or Maria
     Sex: Female
     Age: 45
     Date of Birth: 1737 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as "Maria, Black female," ages 68 years. Maria was the oldest slave enumerated in that tax listing.
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851; "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  5. Name: Dinah
     Sex: Female
     Age: 35
     Date of Birth: 1747 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  6. Name: Frider
     Sex: Female
     Age: 26
     Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  7. Name: Priss
     Sex: Female
     Age: 22
     Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as a "Black female," aged 45.
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851; "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  8. Name: Josiah
     Sex: Male
     Age: 07
     Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  9. Name: Linn
     Sex: Female
     Age: 11
     Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  10. Name: Luce
      Sex: Female
      Age: 01
      Date of Birth: 1781 (calculated)
      Status: Not Determined
      Description: "Female negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  11. Name: Rose
      Sex: Female
      Age: 02
      Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
      Status: Not Determined
      Description: "Female negroe Slave"
      Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as "Rosa, Black female," aged 18.
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851; "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  12. Name: Chloe
      Sex: Female
      Age: 06
      Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Female negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  13. Name: Riss
      Sex: Female
      Age: 07
      Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Female negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  14. Name: Linn
      Sex: Female
      Age: 03
      Date of Birth: 1786 (calculated)
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Negro female"
      Notes: Text of 1789 Registration for Linn: "Herbert Wallace of Followfield Township farmer enters the following negroes, born since 1st March 1780 vis. a female named Linn aged three years. Oath made by William Wallace according to law the 9th March 1789. Tho. Scott"
      Date of Record: March 09, 1789
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  15. Name: Harkless (Hercules?)
      Sex: Male
      Age: 25
      Date of Birth: 1757 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Male negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  16. Name: Bess
      Sex: Female
      Age: 11
      Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Female negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  17. Name: Sen
      Sex: Female
      Age: 14
      Date of Birth: 1786 (calculated)
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Black female"
      Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
      Date of Record: 1800
      Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  18. Name: Robert
      Sex: Male
      Age: 15
      Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Male negroe Slave"
      Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as a "Mulatto male," age 44. The eleven year age difference raises the possibility that this is not the same person.
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851; "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  19. Name: Cata (Cato?)
      Sex: Male
      Age: 28
      Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Male negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  20. Name: Cato
      Sex: Male
      Age: 10
      Date of Birth: 1790 (calculated)
      Status: Slave to age 28
      Description: "Black male"
      Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
      Date of Record: 1800
      Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  21. Name: James
      Sex: Male
      Age: 13
      Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Male negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  22. Name: Sam
      Sex: Male
      Age: 35
      Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Mulatto male"
      Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
      Date of Record: 1800
      Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  23. Name: Peter
      Sex: Male
      Age: 40
      Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Black male"
      Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
      Date of Record: 1800
      Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  24. Name: Tom
      Sex: Male
      Age: 09
      Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Male negroe Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 28, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Wallace, John
  City or Township: Nottingham Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Bredget
     Sex: Female
     Age: One month old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1802--March 10-15a
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "John Wallace of Notingham
     County: enters of record a female negro child named "Bredget" born between the tenth and fifteenth of March last. Oath made according to law the 7th day of May 1802. Coram David Redick"
     Date of Record: May 07, 1802
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Patty
     Sex: Female
     Age: Infant at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1805--June 25
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "John Wallace of Nottingham township enters a female negro child named Patty, born June 25. 1805 of Binah a negro slave for life. Sworn" [Note - if there is more it is cut off the page JS] This item was located between entries dated 24 June 1805 and September 11, 1805.
     Date of Record: 1805--between June and September
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Wallace, William
  City or Township: Fallowfield Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Esquire
  Notes: With the 1789 Registrations, Wallace lists his township as Somerset, and adds the title Esquire.

  1. Name: Samual
     Sex: Male
     Age: Six months old at Registration.
     Date of Birth: 1788, August (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Negro male"
     Notes: See the slave Ruche for the text of Samual's 1789 Registration." Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: February 27, 1789
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851; "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  2. Name: Ruche
     Sex: Female
     Age: 02
     Date of Birth: 1787 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Negro female"
     Notes: Text of 1789 Registrations: "William Wallace of Somerset Township Esquire enters the following negroes vis. A female named Ruche aged two years. A female Jemima aged one year. A male Saml. aged six months. Oath made by the said Wallace that the above negroes were born since the 1st of March 1780 and and that they are of the age above mentioned. Tho Scott." Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as "Rach Mulatto female 14 years."
     Date of Record: February 27, 1789
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851; "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  3. Name: Jemima
     Sex: Female
     Age: 01
     Date of Birth: 1788 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Negro female"
     Notes: See the slave Ruche for the text of Jemima's 1789 Registration.
     Date of Record: February 27, 1789
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: Adam
     Sex: Male
     Age: 20
     Date of Birth: 1780
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Mulatto male"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  5. Name: Elisa
     Sex: Female
     Age: About four months old at Registration.
     Date of Birth: 1790--March (about)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female negro child"
     Notes: Text of registration, dated 15 July 1790: "William Wallace of Somerset township Esquire enters a female negro child named Elisa born some since the first of March 1790. Oath made according to law 15th July 1790/ Coram Jno. Hoge."
     Date of Record: July 15, 1790
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  6. Name: Andrew
     Sex: Male
     Age: "about four months Old"
     Date of Birth: 1792--February (approx)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Male negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration, dated 02 June 1792: "William Wallace esq of Bethlehem township enters one male negro child about four months Old named "Andrew." Oath being made according to law. David Redick June 2d. 1792"
     Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: June 02, 1792
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851; "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  7. Name: Rachell
     Sex: Female
     Age: 06
     Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negroe girl"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Waller, Thomas
  City or Township: Donegal Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: George
     Sex: Male
     Age: 18
     Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negroe male Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

   

• Slaveholder Name: Ward, Thomas
  City or Township: Somerset Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Susannah
     Sex: Female
     Age: Three months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1805--September 10
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "Thomas Ward of Somerset Township, enters of record, a female negro child named Susannah, born the tenth day of Septemr. 1805 of Rachel a negro woman entered by Frederic Cooper in March 1789 - a slave until she arrives at the age of twenty eight years. Coram fees 20cts pd. Sworn Decr. 30. 1805 W McKennan"
     Date of Record: December 30, 1805
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Andrew
     Sex: Male
     Age: Five months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1808--August 11
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Negro male child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "Thomas Ward of Summerset township, enters of record, a negro male child named Andrew, born on the eleventh day of August last past, of the body of Rachel, a negro slave until the age of twenty eight years. Fees 20 cts paid. Sworn January 31st 1809."
     Date of Record: January 31, 1809
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Faebe
     Sex: Female
     Age: 14
     Date of Birth: 1786 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Mulatto female"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

• Slaveholder Name: Wells, Absolom
  City or Township: Hopewell Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Sam
     Sex: Male
     Age: 03
     Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negro boy"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Mary
     Sex: Female
     Age: 22
     Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negro woman"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Jonathan
     Sex: Male
     Age: 13
     Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negro boy"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Wells, Alexander
  City or Township: Hopewell Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Miller
  Notes:

  1. Name: Violet
     Sex: Female
     Age: Four months old at Registration.
     Date of Birth: 1788, May 09 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female mulatto child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "September 24th 1788 Alexander Wells of Hopewell Township Miller enters a female mulatto child (born since the first of March 1780) named Violet aged four months and fifteen days. Oath made according to law the day above. Coram Tho. Scott"
     Date of Record: September 24, 1788
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Wells, Richard
  City or Township: Hopewell Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Yeoman
  Notes: Beginning with the 1790 Registration of James, Wells lists his township as Cross Creek.

  1. Name: Chinet
     Sex: Female
     Age: 28
     Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Woman"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: October 03, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Sally
     Sex: Female
     Age: Three weeks old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1793--December 02
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female negroe child"
     Notes: Text of Registration, dated 23 December 1793: "Richard Wells farmer Cross creek township Washington
     County: enters of record a female negroe child named Sally, born the second day of Decr. in the year of our Lord, One thousand Seven hundred and ninety three. Oath made according to law. David Redick 1/6 pd/ 23 Decr. 1793"
     Date of Record: December 23, 1793
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Elizabeth
     Sex: Female
     Age: Infant at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1792--April 08
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration, not dated but located in the clerk's register with other Registrations dated 02 June 1792: "Richard Wells of Cross creek Township enteres on female negro child named Elizabeth, born 8th April 1792. Oath being made according to law. Sworn before R.D. Ralbot David Redick."
     Date of Record: June 02, 1792
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: James
     Sex: Male
     Age: One month old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1790--November 02
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Male negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration, dated 27 December 1790: "Richard Wells of Cross creek township farmer enters a male negro child named James born the 2nd November 1790. Oath according to law, the 27th Decr. 1790 Coram Zephr. Beall."
     Date of Record: December 27, 1790
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Wells, Thomas
  City or Township: Fallowfield Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes: The County Clerk's October 1782 slave register entry for Thomas Wells includes the phrase "Exit copy pade bal."

  1. Name: Hanna
     Sex: Female
     Age: 27
     Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negro Woman"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: October 03, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Easter
     Sex: Female
     Age: "aged 3 months"
     Date of Birth: 1782, July (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Girl"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: October 03, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: West, Edward
  City or Township: Fallowfield Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Constable
  Notes:

  1. Name: Judith
     Sex: Female
     Age: 40
     Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
     Status: Not Determined
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as "Judith.40 years.Unknown."
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  2. Name: Bek
     Sex: Female
     Age: 06
     Date of Birth: 1794 (calculated)
     Status: "bound till 18 years"
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as Bek.6 years.bound till 18."
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  3. Name: Pompy
     Sex: Male
     Age: 09
     Date of Birth: 1791 (calculated)
     Status: "bound till 21"
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as "Pompy.9 years.bound till 21."
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  4. Name: Cesor or Cesar
     Sex: Male
     Age: 02
     Date of Birth: 1787 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 21
     Description: "Male negro"
     Notes: See the notes for the slave Fan for the text of Cesor's 1789 Registration. Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as "Cesar 11 years bound till 21."
     Date of Record: March 31, 1789
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851 | "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  5. Name: Fan
     Sex: Female
     Age: 04
     Date of Birth: 1785 (calculated)
     Status: "bound till 18"
     Description: "Negro child" /"female"
     Notes: Text of 1789 Registrations: "Edward West of Followfield Township Constable enters the following negroe children of the names & ages following viz, a female named Fan aged four years, a male negro named Cesor aged two years. Oath made by Said West according to law the 31st march 1789. W. Wallace." Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as "Fan 14 years bound till 18."
     Date of Record: March 31, 1789
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851 | "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

• Slaveholder Name: Wheeler, Charles, Doctor
  City or Township: Fallowfield Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Physician
  Notes: Jan Slater notes that the last line of this entry, following the listing of the slave Rachell, is cut off and is not legible. This could indicate another slave. In the 1800 Septennial Census, Charles Wheeler is listed in Pikerun Township.

  1. Name: Rachell
     Sex: Female
     Age: 16
     Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negroe woman"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as a "Black female," aged 40.
     Date of Record: December 02, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851 | "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  2. Name: Daniel
     Sex: Male
     Age: 19
     Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negroe man"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as a "Black male," aged 40.
     Date of Record: December 02, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851 | "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  3. Name: Nero
     Sex: Male
     Age: 34
     Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negroe man"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 02, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: White, Benjamin
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes: The following notation appears after the 1782 Registration of Hannah: "Exit Certc.14the July 1798 fees 53."

  1. Name: Hannah
     Sex: Female
     Age: 12
     Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Wickenham, ?
  City or Township: Nottingham Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes: In the 1800 Septennial Census, this slaveholder is identified only as "Wickenham's."

  1. Name: Jim
     Sex: Male
     Age: 08
     Date of Birth: 1792 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  2. Name: Tom
     Sex: Male
     Age: 06
     Date of Birth: 1794 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  3. Name: Anthony
     Sex: Male
     Age: 35
     Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

• Slaveholder Name: Williams, Basil
  City or Township: Donegal Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Farmer
  Notes: Husband of Margret. In the 1800 Septennial Census, Willliams' location was listed as "Buffaloe Township."

  1. Name: Benjamin
     Sex: Male
     Age: Five months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1799--February 11
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Male negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "Basil Williams of Donegal township farmer requests the Clerk of the Peace, for Washington County to enter of record a male negro child named Benjamin born February 11th 1799. Oath made by his wife Margret according to law. Coram David Redick 13th July 1799"
     Date of Record: July 13, 1799
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Debra
     Sex: Female
     Age: Four months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1791--May 11a
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female molata child"
     Notes: Text of Registration, dated 19 September 1791: "Basel Williams of the township of Dunegal in the County of Washington enters a female molata child born about the 11th day of May An Dom. 1791 named Debra. Oath made according to law 19th Septr. 1791. 1/6 pd. Coram David Redick." Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census as "Deb," age 09.
     Date of Record: September 19, 1791
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851 | "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  3. Name: Jenny
     Sex: Female
     Age: Two months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1794--March 7 or 8
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration, dated 31 May 1794: "Basil Williams of Donegal township farmer registers a female negro child named Jenny, born about the Seventh or eighth day of march last. Oath made according to law. Coram David Redick 31st may 1794"
     Date of Record: May 31, 1794
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: Nance
     Sex: Female
     Age: 12
     Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female Negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  5. Name: Moses
     Sex: Male
     Age: 13
     Date of Birth: 1787 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

• Slaveholder Name: Williams, Leavon
  City or Township: Buffaloe Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Benjamin
     Sex: Male
     Age: 01
     Date of Birth: 1799 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  2. Name: Daniel
     Sex: Male
     Age: 04
     Date of Birth: 1796 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  3. Name: Luce
     Sex: Female
     Age: 11
     Date of Birth: 1789 (calculated)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

  4. Name: Nancy
     Sex: Female
     Age: 30
     Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

• Slaveholder Name: Williamson, David
  City or Township: Buffaloe Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Milly
     Sex: Female
     Age: 20
     Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
     Status: Not Determined
     Description:
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census.
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

• Slaveholder Name: Wills, Henry
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Sampson
     Sex: Male
     Age: 04
     Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male Mullattoe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 28, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Wills, Richard
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Gentleman
  Notes:

  1. Name: Moses
     Sex: Male
     Age: 19
     Date of Birth: 1763 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male mullattoe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Dinah
     Sex: Female
     Age: 45
     Date of Birth: 1737 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Violet
     Sex: Female
     Age: Nine months old at Registration.
     Date of Birth: 1782, March (calculated)
     Status: Not Determined
     Description: "Female mullattoe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: Rashell
     Sex: Female
     Age: 23
     Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  5. Name: George
     Sex: Male
     Age: 02
     Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
     Status: Not Determined
     Description: "Male mullattoe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Willson, John and George
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes: Both slaveholders were named as owners in the 1782 registration of these eleven slaves.

  1. Name: Pompey
     Sex: Male
     Age: 30
     Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negro Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Sylva
     Sex: Female
     Age: 26
     Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negro Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Hannah
     Sex: Female
     Age: 30
     Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negro Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: Bet
     Sex: Female
     Age: 16
     Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negro Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  5. Name: Sam
     Sex: Male
     Age: 18
     Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negro Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  6. Name: Basill
     Sex: Male
     Age: 23
     Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negro Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  7. Name: Jack
     Sex: Male
     Age: 21
     Date of Birth: 1761 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negro Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  8. Name: Hannah
     Sex: Female
     Age: 11
     Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negro Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  9. Name: Beck
     Sex: Female
     Age: 09
     Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negro Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  10. Name: Luce
      Sex: Female
      Age: 22
      Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Female negro Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 31, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  11. Name: Harry
      Sex: Male
      Age: 10
      Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
      Status: Slave for life
      Description: "Male negro Slave"
      Notes:
      Date of Record: December 31, 1782
      Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Wilson, Hugh
  City or Township: Washington
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Merchant
  Notes:

  1. Name: Nancy
     Sex: Female
     Age: Two months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1808--December 19
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female child"
     Notes: Twin sister of Dorsey. Text of Registration: "Hugh Wilson of the Town of Washington, merchant, enters of record one male child and one female child, named Dorsey and Nancy born on the 19th December 1808 of the body of Nancy a negro woman a slave for life. Sworn March 30th 1809. Fees 20cts Coram Alexr. Murdoch."
     Date of Record: March 30, 1809
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Othello
     Sex: Male
     Age: One month old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1805--August
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Negro male child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "Hugh Wilson of Washington, enters of record a negro male child Othello born the last of August last past of Nancy a negro woman, slave for life. Fees 20cts paid. Sworn Decemr. 17. 1805 Coram W. McKennan" Fees 20cts paid. Sworn Decemr. 17. 1805 Coram W. McKennan"
     Date of Record: September 17, 1805
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Dorsey
     Sex: Male
     Age: Two months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1808--December 19
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Male child"
     Notes: Twin brother of Nancy. Text of Registration: "Hugh Wilson of the Town of Washington, merchant, enters of record one male child and one female child, named Dorsey and Nancy born on the 19th December 1808 of the body of Nancy a negro woman a slave for life. Sworn March 30th 1809. Fees 20cts Coram Alexr. Murdoch."
     Date of Record: March 30, 1809
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: Jeremiah
     Sex: Male
     Age: One month old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1803--December 17
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Male negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "Hugh Wilson, of the town of Washington, Merchant, enters of record one male negro child named Jeremiah, born of Nancy on the 17th Decr. 1803. Fees 20cts. paid Jany. 21. 1803. Coram W. McKennan."
     Date of Record: January 21, 1804
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  5. Name: Nancy
     Sex: Female
     Age: ? (adult)
     Date of Birth: ?
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negro"
     Notes: Mother of Frank, born 26 October 1801 and registered by Wilson on 14 December 1801. Mother of Jeremiah, born December 17, 1803 and registered by Wilson on 21 January 1804. Mother of Othello, born in August 1805 and registered by Wilson on September 17, 1805. Mother of twins Dorsey and Nancy, born 19 December 1808.
     Date of Record: December 14, 1801
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  6. Name: Frank
     Sex: Male
     Age: One month old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1801--October 26
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Negro male child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "Hugh Wilson merchant of the town of Washington enters of record a negro male child named Frank born on the 26th Oct. 1801 a son of a negro Nancy who he claims as a slave for life. Sworn to according to law 14th Decr. 1801. Coram David Redick 20cts. paid & 5 over."
     Date of Record: December 14, 1801
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Wilson, Joseph
  City or Township: "Summerset" (Somerset) Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Essex
     Sex: Male
     Age: 11
     Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)  Editor's note:  The 1850 census, by calculating his reported age, indicates that Essex Wilson was born circa 1777.  However the earlier date of 1771 is probably closer to the truth , as it was reported much closer to the event. 
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:  The following letter from Jan Slater uncovers what is probably post-slavery data on this person: "I just stumbled into this one while researching my WILSONs of Greene Co. Not much new with my own family yet but did find these census entries of interest. In 1830, 1840 & 1850 there is a man by the name of Essex WILSON in Washington County, who by 1850 is of the correct age to be the slave Essex of Joseph Wilson of Somerset Twp, Washington Co. PA.
     Info entered below
     Jan Slater"
     

     1830 Somerset Twp. Washington Co. PA
     Essex Wilson, 1 male of 10 and under 25, 1 male of 55 and under 100, and 1 female of 36 and under 55
     
     1840 North Strabane Twp. Washington Co. PA
     Essex Wilson 1 male under 10, 1 male of 55 and under 100, 1 female of 10 and under 24, and 1 female of 36 and under 55
     
     1850 Nottingham Twp. Washington Co. PA
     Essex Wilson, 73 M B, laborer Md.
     Martha 46, F B Pa.
     Jesse 35, M B Pa
     Allice Wilson 27, F B Pa
     Julius M. 3 M B Pa
     Martha A. 1 F B Pa

     Date of Registration Record: December 12, 1782 | Census dates as noted above.
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851 | Correspondence, Jan Slater to Afrolumens Project, 8 August 2006.

• Slaveholder Name: Wilson, Samuel
  City or Township: Smith Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Jean
     Sex: Female
     Age: 35
     Date of Birth: 1765 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Black female"
     Notes: Enumerated in the 1800 Septennial Census. In that record, Jean is listed with the notation "for Life."
     Date of Record: 1800
     Source: "A List of the Negroes, Mulattoes and People of Colour Held as Slaves in the County of Washington."

• Slaveholder Name: Woods, Henry
  City or Township: Canton Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Farmer
  Notes:

  1. Name: Darcos
     Sex: Female
     Age: Four months old at Registration
     Date of Birth: 1799--November 15
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female negro child"
     Notes: Text of Registration: "Henry Woods of Canton township farmer enters of record with the Clerk of the peace a female negro child named Darcos born 15th day of November 1799. Oath made according to law this 22nd March 1800 fees 20 cts. paid Mr. Redick. Coram David Radick copy"
     Date of Record: March 22, 1800
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Woods, Robert
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Si
     Sex: Male
     Age: 16
     Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Male negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Workman, Samuel
  City or Township: Straban Township
  County: Washington
  Occupation: Tanner
  Notes:

  1. Name: Charity
     Sex: Female
     Age: 02
     Date of Birth: 1784 (calculated--see notes)
     Status: Slave to age 28
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes: This appears to be a later entry, with the inscription "this was done at the request of Saml. Workman 12th October 1786." It is not clear if the age of the slave is in reference to the original date on the page, which is December 31, 1782, or the date following the inscription, which is October 12, 1786.
     Date of Record: October 12, 1786
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Nell
     Sex: Female
     Age: 03
     Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Female negroe Slave"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 31, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Yeates, Elizabeth
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Will
     Sex: Male
     Age: 08
     Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negroe boy"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 12, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

• Slaveholder Name: Yeates, Richard
  City or Township:
  County: Washington
  Occupation:
  Notes:

  1. Name: Simon
     Sex: Male
     Age: 45
     Date of Birth: 1737 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description: "Negro"
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 12, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  2. Name: Peter
     Sex: Male
     Age: 37
     Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description:
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 12, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  3. Name: Hannah
     Sex: Female
     Age: 33
     Date of Birth: 1749 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description:
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 12, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

  4. Name: Jiubeh
     Sex: Not Determined
     Age: 18
     Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
     Status: Slave for life
     Description:
     Notes:
     Date of Record: December 12, 1782
     Source: Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851

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