slavery in pennsylvania
slaveholders listed on this page
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- Parsons, George (Slaves listed: Tony, Ishmail, Elizabeth, Richard, Isaac, Tom)
- Patterson, Nicholas (Slaves listed: Tone, Jean, Mark, Eff, Jack)
- Pennington, John (Slaves listed: Isaac, Fanny)
- Praul, Elizabeth (Slaves listed: Margaret)
- Praul, John (Slaves listed: Jude, Jack, Suk, Cato, Sam, Nan)
- Price, Smith (Slaves listed: Esther)
- Ramsay, Hugh (Slaves listed: Jupiter)
- Ramsay, John (Slaves listed: Matt, Patt, Peter, Hannah, Sall)
- Ramsay, Robert (Slaves listed: Solomon)
- Ramsay, Thomas (Slaves listed: Bett)
- Ramsay, William (Slaves listed: Richard, John)
- Richardson, ? (Slaves listed: Hagar)
- Riche, Thomas (Slaves listed: Jame, Jane, Chrissy, Silvia, Luce, Isaac, Bell, Clementina, Melora, Amoreh, Peg, Emilia, Matilda, Fidelia, Phill, Jamaica, Jack, Ann, Dinah)
- Roberts, Jonathan (Slaves listed: Amos)
- Roberts, William (Slaves listed: Derry)
- Robinson, Bob (Slaves listed: Nance Cook, Jack)
- Rodman, William (Slaves listed: Rosetta
Grant, Edmund Grant, Fanny Grant, Phillis, Leon, Holland, Maria, Rose, Mary, Phillis, Sal, Plymouth, Caesar, Pegg, Rose)
- Ruckman, James (Slaves listed: un-named female child)
- Rue, Richard (Slaves listed: Ishmael, Robert, Hannah, Isaac, Tom, Sarah, Cuffey, Phillip)
- Sackett, Joseph (Slaves listed: Cornwell)
- Severns, Daniel (Slaves listed: Nell, Jem, John)
- Shiwell, Robert (Slaves listed: Jess, Feno, Jamaica)
- Shull, Tobias (Slaves listed: Tom)
- Spear, Phebe (Slaves listed: Tom)
- Stewart, Robert (Slaves listed: Pero)
- Stewart, Thomas (Slaves listed: Florence)
- Stillwell, Richard (Slaves listed: Phoebe, Tom)
- Strickland, Amos (Slaves listed: Charles,
unnamed woman and child)
- Strickland, Margaret (Slaves listed: Ish, Nance, Han)
- Swift, John (Slaves listed: Bell, Lewis, Nell, Brinah, Belinda [born 1720], Juliana, Jack, Belinda [born 1788], Caesar, Charlotte, Isaac)
about the information in this list
Each listing represents a record of one Black slave or indentured servant (more on terminology below). The list is sorted alphabetically according to the owner's surname. I felt that this order would be the most useful for several reasons. It groups slaves together who would have lived with the same owner, and increases the likelihood of finding persons related to each other. Records of slave surnames are rare, many being identified only through their given name. You can search this listing for a specific slave given name by using your browser's Find feature (Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer use Ctrl + F).
Dates of birth for the slaves, unless specified in the original documents, have been calculated by subtracting their given age from the date of the record. Very often, their ages as reported in the original records are given as approximations (such as "about 25 years of age"), which is indicated by a lower case "a" following their age. The term Status refers to the slave's relative freedom. Unless specified otherwise, slaves served "for life" prior to Pennsylvania's
Gradual Emancipation Act of 1780. Children born to slave mothers after the passage of that legislation were to serve until age 28, which was much of their productive lives.
The term Description refers to the main description of the slave as given in the original source (including misspellings). This is often a means by which slaves were put into certain categories according to race and relative age. Source numbers correspond to the accompanying
list of sources used in compiling this record.
terminology, and other notes
The terms "slave" and "servant" were often used interchangeably, especially in the earliest years of the time period covered in this study. After the
Gradual Emancipation Act of 1780 was passed in Pennsylvania, the term "servant" frequently came to mean either someone in indentured servitude or someone employed by the head of the household. The passage from slave to servant was often indistinct for many Blacks, many of whom remained with their former owners after being legally emancipated. For simplicity I have used the term "slave" to represent these people whom I believe were truly in bondage, even though some records list them as "servants." This list does not include white indentured servants, who were an entirely different class of labor from Black slaves and Black "indentured servants."
The locations listed for the owners, especially City or Township are greatly mixed, and represent the location listed in the original record. As township boundaries shifted and new townships and counties were created, the original listing may be very misleading.
enslavement data
- Slaveholder Name: Parsons, George
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes: The property of George Parsons was advertised for sale by the Bucks County Sheriff. The description of the estate includes "a negroe man:"
Newtown, Bucks county, April 7, 1786.
BY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas to me directed, will be exposed to public Sale, on the premises, on TUESDAY, the second day of May next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, a certain Messuage, Plantation, and Tract of Land, situate in Northampton township, containing about 180 acres, be the same more or less; having thereon a good two story stone house, good barn, &c. Also will be sold at the same time and place, winter grain in the ground, horses, cows, waggon and gears, feather beds, case of drawers, tables, chairs, plough and harrow, two copper stills; also a negroe man. All late the property of George Parsons. Seized and taken in execution, and to be sold, by
WILLIAM ROBERTS, Sheriff.
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 12, 1786
- Slave Name: Tony
Sex: Male
Age: 00 Years and 09 Months
Date of Birth: 1779 or 1780 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Ishmail
Sex: Male
Age: 31
Date of Birth: 1749 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Elizabeth
Sex: Female
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Richard
Sex: Male
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: 03
Date of Birth: 1777 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 05
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Patterson, Nicholas
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Tone
Sex: Male
Age: 26
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jean
Sex: Female
Age: 24
Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Mark
Sex: Male
Age: 11
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Eff
Sex: Female
Age: 04
Date of Birth: 1776 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Pennington, John
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1787-January 11
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 20, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Fanny
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1789-January 20
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 20, 1789
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Praul, Elizabeth
City or Township:
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "Wife of Peter Praul. Returned by her on Account of the Incapacity of her Husband, He being struck with the Palsy."
- Slave Name: Margaret
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Praul, John
City or Township:
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jude
Sex: Female
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: 35
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Suk
Sex: Female
Age: 00 Years and 03 Months
Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: Status is not specified in registration, but due to her age, should be as listed, until age 28.
- Slave Name: Cato
Sex: Male
Age: 38
Date of Birth: 1742 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sam
Sex: Male
Age: 03
Date of Birth: 1777 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Nan
Sex: Female
Age: 32
Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Price, Smith
City or Township: Plumstead
Occupation: "Store keeper"
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Esther
Sex: Female
Age: 23a
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Manumitted
in 1787
Description: Negro
Source: 72
Date of Record: May 23, 1787
Notes: Partial text of manumission papers: "Manumate and set free my Negroe Slave Named Esther about twenty three years of Age."
- Slaveholder Name: Ramsay, Hugh
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation:
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jupiter
Sex: Male
Age: 33
Date of Birth: 1747 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Ramsay, John
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Matt
Sex: Female
Age: 44
Date of Birth: 1736 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Patt
Sex: Female
Age: 08
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Peter
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sall
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1789-January 07
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: June 09, 1789
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Ramsay, Robert
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Solomon
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Ramsay, Thomas
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Bett
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
Slaveholder Name: Ramsay, William
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Richard
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1782-August 01
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 31, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: John
Sex: Male
Age: 28
Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Richardson, ?
City or Township: Falls
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Hagar
Sex: Female
Age: 08 Years and 05 Months
Date of Birth: 1772 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Riche, Thomas
(In records as Thomas Ricke)
City or Township: Falls Township
Occupation::
Merchant
Slaveholder Notes:
Largest slaveholder, by number of slaves registered, in Bucks County.
Riche was a merchant who sold slaves as part of his inventory (see
Pennsylvania Slave Merchants)
- Slave Name: Jame
Sex: Male
Age: 60
Date of Birth: 1720 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jane
Sex: Female
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Chrissy
Sex: Female
Age: 00 Years and 06 Months
Date of Birth: 1780 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
Status: is presumed from the registered age, which indicates she was probably born after the March 01 1780 cut-off date for slaves for life.
- Slave Name: Silvia
Sex: Female
Age: 30
Date of Birth: 1750 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Luce
Sex: Female
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: 12
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Bell
Sex: Female
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Clementina
Sex: Female
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1778 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Melora
Sex: Female
Age: 26
Date of Birth: 1754 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Amoreh
Sex: Female
Age: 01 Year and 06 Months
Date of Birth: 1779 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Peg
Sex: Female
Age: 13
Date of Birth: 1767 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Emilia
Sex: Female
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Matilda
Sex: Female
Age: 05
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Fidelia
Sex: Female
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Phill
a.k.a. Philip Potter
Sex: Male
Age: 40
(Note: the age reported in the runaway ad may be more accurate)
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated
from registration); or 1743 (calculated from runaway ad)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
"Negro man"
Source: 72 |
New Jersey Gazetteer, April 1779
Date of Record:
registration: 1780
; reported run away: 2 April 1779
Notes: Ran away in March 1778, but was apparently recovered by
the time of registration in 1780. Text of runaway ad:RAN
AWAY the 6th of March last, from the subscriber living in Bucks county, in
the state of Pennsylvania, a negro man, who calls himself Philip Potter; a
likely well set fellow, about 36 years old, has a remarkable mole on the
corner of his right eye. Had on when he went off, a dark homespun
coattee, red waistcoat and buckskin breeches, dark homespun stockings; but
having others with him may change them. Whoever takes up the said
negro and secures him in Newtown gaol, or delivers him to his master, shall
receive One Hundred Dollars reward, as witness my hand this 2d of April,
1779, THOMAS RICHE.
N.B. Whoever apprehends the above described fellow, must be upon their
guard, or he will escape from them.
- Slave Name: Jamaica
Sex: Male
Age: 40
Date of Birth: 1740 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Date of Birth: 1757 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Ann
Sex: Female
Age: 53
Date of Birth: 1727 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Dinah
Sex: Female
Age: 28
Date of Birth: 1752 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Roberts, Jonathan
City or Township: Warwick
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Amos
Sex: Male
Age: 19a
Date of Birth: 1775 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Negro Man
Source: 86
Date of Record: May 07, 1794
Notes: Ran away April 29, 1794. Described in the runaway ad as "five feet eight inches high, a well set stout made fellow, a little stoop shouldered when he walks." His status was described as "indented," which may or
may not refer to the status "slave to age 28."
- Slaveholder Name: Roberts, William
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation:: Yeoman
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Derry
Sex: Male
Age: 34
Date of Birth: 1746 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Robinson, Bob
City or Township: Bedminster
Occupation:: Yeoman
Slaveholder Notes: Slave Jack registered in 1789 by Thomas Wright, attorney of Bob Robinson. In the 1780 Registration, he is listed as Robert Robinson.
- Slave Name: Cook, Nance
Sex: Female
Age: 18
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Status: Slave to age 31
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "to serve till 31 Years of Age."
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1779-October
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 10, 1789
Notes: Late registration. By law this slave probably should have been emancipated after the deadline in 1780.
- Slaveholder Name: Rodman, William
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation:: Yeoman
Slaveholder Notes: Rodman also lists his occupation as "gentleman" on some registrations and "farmer" on others.
Rodman's slave ownership is mentioned in Quaker Middletown Monthly Meeting Minutes, July 08, 1777:
"The following Friends still persist in hold slaves: Jonathan Willett, Joseph Thornton, John Jenks, and William Rodman [the latter having it under consideration]"
And: "5/3/1778 - William Rodman disowned for holding slaves and participating as a judge in matters relating
to War." (Source: 90)
- Slave Name: Rosetta
Grant
Sex: Female
Age: 02
years at registration.
Date of Birth: 1786-February 10
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
"Negro Woman"
Source: 72
Date of Record: Registration: January 21, 1789;
Manumission: June 24, 1809
Notes:
Partial text of manumission papers: "Manumit and set free, discharge from my service and abandon agreeably to law a Negro Woman Named Rosetta Grant aged between twenty three and twenty four years and also her female child Fanny and her Male child Edmund."
- Slave Name: Grant, Edmund
Sex: Male
Age: ?
Date of Birth: ?
Status: Manumitted
Description: Child
Source: 72
Date of Record: June 24, 1809
Notes: Partial text of manumission papers: "Manumit and set free, discharge from my service and abandon agreeably to law a Negro Woman Named Rosetta Grant aged between twenty three and twenty four years and also her female child Fanny and her Male child Edmund."
- Slave Name: Grant, Fanny
Sex: Female
Age: ?
Date of Birth: ?
Status: Manumitted
Description: Child
Source: 72
Date of Record: June 24, 1809
Notes: Partial text of manumission papers: "Manumit and set free, discharge from my service and abandon agreeably to law a Negro Woman Named Rosetta Grant aged between twenty three and twenty four years and also her female child Fanny and her Male child Edmund."
- Slave Name: Phillis
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1792-May 31
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: September 17, 1792
Notes:
- Slave Name: Leon
Sex: Male
Age: 10
Date of Birth: 1770 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Holland
Sex: Male
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1781-December 06
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 21, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Maria
Sex: Female
Age: 04
Date of Birth: 1784-March 22
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 21, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Rose
Sex: Female
Age: 75
Date of Birth: 1705 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Mary
Sex: Female
Age: 50
Date of Birth: 1730 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Phillis
Sex: Female
Age: 35
Date of Birth: 1745 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sall
Sex: Female
Age: 18
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Plymouth
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1774 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Caesar
Sex: Male
Age: 01
Date of Birth: 1779-December 06
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: Exact date of birth is noted in 1780 Registration.
- Slave Name: Pegg
Sex: Female
Age: 01
Date of Birth: 1788-February 27
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 21, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Rose
Sex: Female
Age: 22
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Ruckman, James
City or Township: Plumstead
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: ?
Sex: Female
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: No name returned on 1780 Registration.
- Slaveholder Name: Rue, Richard
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Ishmael
Sex: Male
Age: 14
Date of Birth: 1766 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Robert
Sex: Male
Age: 06
Date of Birth: 1782-November 10
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 16, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Hannah
Sex: Female
Age: 44
Date of Birth: 1736 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: 18
Date of Birth: 1762 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 50
Date of Birth: 1730 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Sarah
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Cuffey
Sex: Male
Age: 12
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Phillip
Sex: Male
Age: 11
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Sackett, Joseph
City or Township: Wrightstown
Occupation:: Yeoman
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Cornwell
Sex: Male
Age: 32
Date of Birth: 1748 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Severns, Daniel
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Nell
Sex: Female
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jem
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1792-February 25
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: August 14, 1792
Notes:
- Slave Name: John
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-February 13
Status: Slave to age 28
Description: Mulatto
Source: 72
Date of Record: August 11, 1794
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Shiwell, Robert
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Jess
Sex: Male
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Feno
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-October 15
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: April 14, 1795
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jamaica
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Shull, Tobias
City or Township: New Britain
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes: Shull was a "Bucks County Associator,"
serving in the New Britain Company during the Revolution.
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: ? "man"
Date of Birth: ?
Status: Runaway
Description: Negro Man
Source: 77 (full text of two
different ads)
Date of Record: December 31, 1778
Notes: Ran away on December 20, 1778. Described in the runaway ad as "well made, about six feet high...He has a fiddle with him, and plays with his left hand." He had been recently bought from William Brown of Ten Mile Run in New Jersey.
- Slaveholder Name: Spear, Phebe
City or Township: Northampton
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Stewart, Robert
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Pero
Sex: Male
Age: 11 Years and 6 Months
Date of Birth: 1769 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Stewart, Thomas
City or Township: Tinicum
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Florence
Sex: Female
Age: 12
Date of Birth: 1768 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Mulatto
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Stillwell, Richard
City or Township: Lower Makefield
Occupation:: Farmer
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Phoebe
Sex: Female
Age: 07
Date of Birth: 1773 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: Mulatto
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes: 1780 Registration notes: "A Mollattoe Slave for Life."
- Slave Name: Tom
Sex: Male
Age: 09
Date of Birth: 1771 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Strickland, Amos
City or Township: Newtown
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Charles
Sex: Male
Age: 24a
Date of Birth: 1716 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negro Man"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 20, 1738
Date of Record: April 20, 1738
Notes: Ran away in April 1738. Text of runaway ad placed by Amos Strickland to recover him:
RUN away on the 18th Inst. from Amos Strickland, of Newtown in Bucks County, a Negro Man, named Charles, aged about 24 Years, of middle Stature, well set, does not talk good English, on one of his Ankles is a large Scar, and his Feet having been frozen he walks a little crippling: Had on an old Castor Hat, a linnen Cap with Callico Border, a dirty colour'd Kersey Jacket, Leather Breeches stitch'd with 3 Seams along the Knees, a homespun Shirt, yarn Stockings footed, strong Shoes with Hobnails in them. He pretends to be a Tanner. Whoever takes up and secures the said Negro, so that he may be had again, shall have Forty Shillings Reward and reasonable Charges paid by Amos Strickland.
- Slave Name: Not named in ad
Sex: Female
Age:
"woman"
Date of Birth: prior to 1751
Status: Slave for life
Description: "Negroe woman"
Source: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1 August 1751
Date of Record: 1 August 1751
Notes:
Offered for sale, along with her child, in August 1751: "To be sold by said
Strickland, a lusty Negroe woman and child."
- Slaveholder Name: Strickland, Margaret
City or Township: Newtown
Occupation::
Slaveholder Notes:
- Slave Name: Ish
Sex: Male
Age: 24
Date of Birth: 1756 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Nance
Sex: Female
Age: 22
Date of Birth: 1758 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Han
Sex: Female
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slaveholder Name: Swift, John
City or Township: Bensalem
Occupation:: Gentleman
Slaveholder Notes: Also lists his occupation as farmer on some registrations.
- Slave Name: Bill
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Date of Birth: 1760 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Lewis
Sex: Male
Age: 25
Date of Birth: 1755 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Nell
Sex: Female
Age: 21
Date of Birth: 1759 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Brinah
Sex: Female
Age: 16
Date of Birth: 1764 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Belinda
Sex: Female
Age: 60
Date of Birth: 1720 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Juliana
Sex: Female
Age: 02
Date of Birth: 1786-October 20
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: January 23, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Jack
Sex: Male
Age: ?
Date of Birth: ?
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Belinda
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1788-June 25
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source:
Date of Record: January 23, 1789
Notes:
- Slave Name: Caesar
Sex: Male
Age: 36
Date of Birth: 1744 (calculated)
Status: Slave for life
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: 1780
Notes:
- Slave Name: Charlotte
Sex: Female
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1794-December 04
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: March 12, 1795
Notes:
- Slave Name: Isaac
Sex: Male
Age: -
Date of Birth: 1791-October 20
Status: Slave to age 28
Description:
Source: 72
Date of Record: November 16, 1791
Notes:
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