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Brunswick County (Va.) apprentice indenture binding the son of Betsy Scott, a free woman of color, to Clough Amos, 1812 Dec. 14. Local government records collection, Brunswick County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
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Buckingham County probably was named either for the English county or for the duke of Buckingham. According to some sources, however, the name came from Archibald Cary's tract of land called Buckingham, on what was then Willis's Creek. It was formed from Albemarle County in 1761.
Records were destroyed by fire in 1869.
Buckingham (Va.) apprentice indenture binding the son of Betsy Scott, a free woman of color, to Clough Amos, 1812 Dec. 14. Scott's son, Wilson Scott, was apprenticed to Amos to learn "the art and mystery of a waterman in navigating [the] James river."
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