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Princess Anne County (Va.) Register of Free Negroes and Mulattoes, 1830-1862, Princess Anne County (Va.) Reel 75. Local government records collection, Virginia Beach (City)/Princess Anne County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
This item was microfilmed by the Library of Virginia's Imaging Services Division.
Also available as photocopies under barcode 1138010.>
Princess Anne County was formed in 1691 from Lower Norfolk County. Now extinct, it was incorporated into the city of Virginia Beach in 1963.
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.
Princess Anne County (Va.) Register of Free Negroes and Mulattoes, 1830-1862, records the registration number; name; age; size (height); color and marks; by whom liberated, when, and by what instrument; in what county or place liberated; whether born free; when freedom was established and in what county; and when the copy of the register was delivered to the registered person. There is no index.
Additional Princess Anne County Free Negro and Slave Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm."