> <A HREF="http://www.springhillfarm.com/broomhall/slaveown.html">Click here: >Slave Owners 9/1/2000</A> >http://www.springhillfarm.com/broomhall/slaveown.html > According to the slave owners index in the Broomall web site, >there were more then 3 slave owners in Chester Co. PA. > Hello Listers, I'm beginning to regret having left town for the three day weekend we just recently had. Not only was I bombarded by many helpful posts to the list, I collectively received a lot of them! Seems as though there was some information regarding the 1790 census and slaves posted to the list. What an interesting topic. One I struggled to understand several years past until I befriended an individual who is on the board of the Amity Heritage Genealogical Society. It wasn't until this person explained the circumstances of those tick marks under the slave column that I finally came to some rational understanding of people who would come and go within a tax list. Yes, there is that possibility that those who skip the tax sheets from time to time may have very well been serving some sort of indenture or sorts. But then there are the others who simply lived on the land of a relative or sorts who were referred to as a tenant. It is those people who have little representation (Or should I say, no representation) on the 1790 census. You see, I'm told that in many counties within the eastern side of Pennsylvania the census takers were uncertain as to where to list these people. So in many cases, a tenant to the land was simply noted as a tick mark under the slave category. So now, hundreds of year later, we are left to interrupt it all. Not all notations to slaves were for the African-America immigrants but some were for those indentured and tenants too. As a small child, being dragged along side my mother, to the Archives in Washington DC I met a man who told me, "If we were to take all that we know of history through all the books that we have, we would only know a small portion equal to the head of a pin as much is left for interruption." You know...........I begining to understand that guy some 30 years later! Well then again, maybe 40 years............ I'll allow you to interrupt. Cheryl