Fauquier County (Va.) Board of Overseers of the Poor Minutes, 1804-1845

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Fauquier County (Va.) Board of Overseers of the Poor Minutes, 1804-1845

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi02514.xml

eng,

Library of Virginia

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6334854

Library of Virginia

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Fauquier County (Va.) Board of Overseers of the Poor

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gg3wzf (corporateBody)

Fauquier County (Va.) Circuit Court.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jb98rt (corporateBody)

Fauquier County was formed in 1759 from Prince William 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. From the guide to the Fauquier County (Va.) Register of Free Negroes, 1817-1865, (The Library of Virginia) Fauquier County was named for Francis Fauquier, lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1758 to 1768. It was formed...