Bath County (Va.) Register of Free Negroes, 1794-1841

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Bath County (Va.) Register of Free Negroes, 1794-1841

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Bath County was formed in 1790 from Augusta, Botetourt, and Greenbrier (West Virginia) Counties. From the guide to the Bath County (Va.) Bill of Emancipation, 1798, (The Library of Virginia) Bath County was formed in 1790 from Augusta, Botetourt, and Greenbrier (West Virginia) Counties. An act passed by the Virginia legislature in 1803 required every free negro or mulatto to be registered and numbered in a book to be kept by the county c...