Dec 30, 2014 | Sample Documents
This remarkable register of African Americans in Caroline County, VA was recorded on the last few pages of a register of letters sent by the Bowling Green, VA Assistant Subassistant Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau. The first two pages of the register are...
Dec 30, 2014 | Sample Documents
Georgetown D.C. April 11th ’67 Col Rutherford Dear Sir You will recollect that in Dec last I was at your office, you gave me a letter to take to Mrs. Mulligan with whom my daughter Celia is living. I wished to get her from that place as they dont pay me any...
Dec 30, 2014 | Sample Documents
This affidavit of identity, made to document a military bounty claim for Robert Lambert, deceased, reveals that Robert Lambert and his wife Rhoda Lambert were both enslaved by Nathan Adams of Haywood County, Tennessee. The document states that Robert Lambert served as...
Dec 27, 2014 | Sample Documents
The Home Colony at Davis Bend, Mississippi was established by the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1863-64 on land formerly owned by Jefferson Davis and his brother. Residents of the colony farmed some 5,000 acres on the site of the former Davis Bend Plantation, and in 1864...
Nov 22, 2014 | Sample Documents
“Mithel Roberson and Tabaitha Roberson freedman and freedwoman haveing lived together as husband and wife the Rits of Marriage were legally Solemnized by me between them in the Town of Bowling Green Warren County Kentucky Jan 10th 1866 N R Davis Min”...
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