A Guide to the Fredericksburg (Va.) Certificates and Registry of Free Negroes in the City of Fredericksburg, 1790-1862 Fredericksburg (Va.) Certificates and Registry of Free Negroes in the City of Fredericksburg, 1790-1862
Fredericksburg (Va.) Reel 103
A Collection in the Library of Virginia
Microfilm reel number: Fredericksburg (Va.) Reel 103
Library of Virginia
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Fredericksburg (Va.) Certificates and Registry of Free Negroes in the City of Fredericksburg, 1790-1862. Fredericksburg (Va.)
Reel 103, Local government records collection. Fredericksburg (City) Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
23219.
Acquisition Information
These items were microfilmed by the Library of Virginia's Imaging Services Division from a xerox copy of the originals held
by the Central Rappahannock Regional Library.
Fredericksburg was established in 1728. Incorporated as a town in 1782, it was incorporated as a city in 1879 and is one of
the independent cities of Virginia.
Fredericksburg (Va.) Certificates and Registry of Free Negroes in the City of Fredericksburg, 1790-1862, consists of wills,
deeds of manumission and emancipation, discharges from servitude, affidavits and certificates of status as a free negro, registrations
as free negroes, and a partial register of free negroes with registrations dated 1850-1862 circa. Some of the very first items
in the collection are undated. A typed compiled index completed in 1977 preceeds the documents.