Dec 30, 2014 | Sample Documents
This register of freedmen lists 17 freed men, women and children with the last name of Singleton, all formerly enslaved on the Manning estate in Ascension Parish, LA. Those listed may very well be extended family. If you are researching the name Singleton in Ascension...
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...
Dec 22, 2014 | Sample Documents
Although this affidavit of identity was made in Memphis, Tennessee, it reveals that the former slaveholders for Peggy Wells and her son David Wells were Morgan and Mary An Wells of Tippah County, Mississippi. The document also reveals that the former slaveholder of...
Nov 22, 2014 | Sample Documents
Below is a transcription and sample page image for an undated register of labor contracts made in Livingston, AL. The names in the register are the names of employers who entered into contracts with Freedmen. This document is helpful because it records the names of...
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