Registration of Slave (1780); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sandra Ferguson . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** March 1, 1780. All those owning slaves in Chester Co were required to register them. This registry was kept in the office of the clerk of the court of Quarter Sessions in Chester co, and provided the name, sex, time of service of each person held as a slave, name of the owner,and the township where he or she lived. From Futhey and Cope's, THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY PA- the following is a listing of those who had slaves registered in 1780, and their township; Birmingham – no returns East Bradford - “ West Bradford – no returns Coventry – Thomas Potts, 6 Rebecca Grace, 3 Charlestown - Benjamin Thomas, 1 Patrick Anderson, 1 Llewellyn Davis, 1 William Bodley, 2 William Moore, Esq., 10 Alexander McCalla, 1 George McIllhenny, 2 Anthony Pritehard, 4 John Humphrey, 1 Elias Brown, 1 East Caln – William Allison, 3 David Gill, 1 West Caln - Herman Skiles, 1 Robert Gibbs, 2 Elizabeth Wallace, 2 Easttown - General Anthony Wayne, 1 East Fallowfield – Caleb Phips, 5 John Te les, 2 West Fallowfield – Samuel Futhey, 3 John Bell, 8 Andrew Gibson, 1 Goshen - John Bowen, 5 Mary Barrett, 3 Josiah Haines, 1 Dr. Joseph Moore, 3 Hannah Moore, 1 New Garden - Andrew McIntire, 1 Kennet – Joseph Shippen, Jr, 3 New London Alexander Morrison, 5 George Campbell, 1 John Mackey, 1 John Smith, 1 John Monough, 1 James Reed, 3 William Reed, 2 Mary Kelso, 1 Arthur McClure, 2 Alexander Johnson, 1 John McDowell, 2 Robert Correy, 3 David Correy, 3 Catherine Kelso, 1 William Shearer, 3 London Britain John Evans, 9 Evan Evans, 6 John Whitting, 2 Thomas Lunn, 2 Londonderry – Thomas Strswbriege, 3 Joseph Strawbridge, 1 Frances Blair, 2 Joseph Hutchinson, 1 Montgomery Kennedy, 2 Daniel Jones, 5 John Finney, 1 John F. McClenachan, 1 Thomas Boyd, 4 Londongrove – David Wiley, 3 John Ross, 1 West Marlborough – James Hannum, 2 East Marlborough – no returns Newlin no returns East Nantmeal – Thomas Bull, 2 Richard Tenplin, 1 Hugh Williams, 1 William Starrett, 3 James Henderson, 1 Branson Vanleer, 5 John Nice, 1 West Nantmeal – James Moore, 5 James Graham, 5 James McCamant, 1 Joseph Darlington, 2 Peter Hunter, 2 James Hanna, 1 Mordecai Piersol, 1 Moses Trego, 1 James Graham, 1 East Nottingham – John Power, 1 Philip Tanner, 2 Lydia Sidwell, 1 David Wherry, 2 James Wilson, 1 Matthew Henderson, 1 John McBeth, 1 Thomas Maffert, 3 John Cuthbert, 3 Patrick Power, 8 Abel Hodgson, 3 West Nottingham – William Polk, 3 David Moore, 1 Elizabeth Smith, 1 Heirs of Margaret Smith, 1 Oxford Walter Hood, 5 Margaret Hayes, 1 James McDowell, 5 Job Ruston, 10 David Hayes, 2 William Starrett, 1 William Pinkerton, 2 Joseph Luckie, 1 Patrick Alexander, 1 Pennsbury – no returns Pikeland - Capt. Alexander McCaraher, 2 Alexander McKinley, 4 Heirs of Samuel Kennedy, 3 Sadsbury - Agnes McPherson, 1 Catharine Boyd, 1 Matthew boyd, 1 Andrew Boyd, 2 Thomas Davis, 1 Rev. William Foster, 3 Joseph Park, Esq, 4 Treduffrom - Sarah Havard, 2 Ann Harvard, 1 Lewis Gronow. 5 John Cloyd, 2 Dr. John Davis. 1 Richard Brittain, 4 John Wilson. 2 Benj. Davis, 1 David Wilson, 1 Col.William Dewees,1 Thomas Walters, 2 John Williams, 1 Thornbury – Thomas Cheyney, esq, 2 Uwchlan – John Evans, 1 Thomas Evans, 6 Vincent no return East Whiteland Peter Mather, 1 Richard Richardson, 5 David Lloyd Stephen Bowen, 1 West Whiteland the estate of John Jacobs, 7 Wiliam Richards, 3 James Dunwoody, 1 Westtown James Black, 1 Willistown Isaac Griffith, 1 In addition the following returns were made by persons whose residence was not given; Thomas May, 4 John Vanlasey, 4 Capt. Thomas Wiley, 1 George Boyd, 1 Thomas Scott, 1 William Steele, 2