Inventory of the Rockbridge County Virginia Free Black Register 1803-1828
A Collection in the
Manuscripts and Rare Books Department
Collection Number Mss. MsV Lev13
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Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Collection is open to all researchers.
Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Preferred Citation
Andrew Reid Record Book, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information
In the possession of Swem Library before 1939.
Scope and Content Information
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."
Index Terms
- Reid, Andrew.
- Freedmen--Virginia--History.
- African Americans--Virginia--Rockbridge County--History.
- African Americans-- History--19th century.
- Boats and boating.