To select owner records select record type “Owner.” This will produce lists of slave owners with counts of the number of slaves owned.

Example: Enter “Owner” and “1800” for “Record Year (from) and “1810” for “record Year (to.)” You will see a list of slave owners based on records from 1800-1810. You can then further refine the search, also entering “Kings” for “County or Borough.”

Tags: These are codes that, when used in a search for a slave or owner, identify a special circumstance or issue. The following is a list of the tags:

• BON: These are records of slaves who escaped to the British during the Revolutionary War and who subsequently emigrated to Canada as free persons.
• LSTD: The are records of slave transactions in Louisiana where the enslaved person was born in New York. Their enslavement in Louisiana may have been illegal in New York.
• RAN: These are records based on runaway slave notices and ads.
• ABN: These are records of babies born to enslaved women who were officially abandoned by the slave owner and placed up for foster care by the local government.
• SALE: This is a record of a slave trade transaction.
• EMN: This is a record of an emancipation of a slave.
• CEM: A cemetery marker or record.