Dinwiddie County (Va.) Register of Free Negroes, 1850-1864

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Dinwiddie County (Va.) Register of Free Negroes, 1850-1864

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi01633.xml

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Dinwiddie County (Va.) Circuit Court.

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Dinwiddie County was formed in 1752 from Prince George County. 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 clerk. The bulk of court records prior to 1865 were stolen, mutilated, and/or destroyed by Union troops who ransacked the courthouse during the last months of the Civil War. Post-1830 volumes such as deed books, will books, chancery order books, an...