Smyth County (Va.) Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife, 1866 Feb. 27.
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Smyth County (Va.) Circuit Court.
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Smyth County was named in 1843 for Alexander Smyth, a former congressman from Virginia who had died in 1830 while efforts were underway to create the new county. The county was formed from Washington and Wythe Counties. From the guide to the Smyth County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1859-1861., (The Library of Virginia) Smyth County was named for Alexander Smyth, a congressman from Virginia in 1832 when the county was formed from Washington a...
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
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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 ...
