A Guide to Prince Edward County (Va.) Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife, 27th February 1866
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Prince Edward County (Va.) Circuit Court
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Prince Edward County was named in honor of Edward Augustus, a son of Prince Frederick Louis, a grandson of George II, and a younger brother of George III. The county was formed from Amelia County in 1753. In 1782 the Virginia legislature passed an act to ascertain the number of people in the Commonwealth. The court of each county was directed to divide the county into precincts and list the number of people both white and black in each precinct. The lists were delivered ...
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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...
