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Andrew Reid Record Book, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
In the possession of Swem Library before 1939.
Record kept by Andrew Reid, clerk of Rockbridge County, Virginia, entitled "For the Registering of Free Negroes [of Rockbridge County] according to the Act . . . of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed 25 January 1803" which includes physical descriptions, ages, information on former owners and record of emanicipation. The volume was also used as a registry of boats to comply with An act of the General Assembly of Virginia entitled "an act regulating the navigation of James River above the falls of said river."