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Powhatan County (Va.) United States Military Headquarters Subdistrict Appomattox Correspondence, 1865. Local government records collection, Powhatan County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
These items came to the Library of Virginia in shipments of court papers from Powhatan County.
Powhatan County was named for the paramount chief of the Powhatan Indians in the tidewater of Virginia in the late sixteenth and early years of the seventeenth century. It was formed from Cumberland County in 1777, and part of Chesterfield County was added in 1850. The county seat is Powhatan.
Powhatan County (Va.) United States Military Headquarters Subdistrict Appomattox Correspondence, 1865, consist of letters between United States Military Headquarters Subdistrict Appomattox located in Petersburg and local commanding officers in Powhatan County. Topics found in correspondence include distributing rations to destitute white and African Americans, the provision of housing for emancipated slaves, and a request from planters to extend apprenticeships of African American children beyond one year.
Chronological.