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| First Name | Middle Name | Last Name | Alias | Registration number | Date of registration | Age | Gender | Color | Height- Feet | Height - Inches | Physical description | Free status | Where emancipated | Who emancipated | Previous place of registration | Date of birth | Place of birth | Name of mother | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucy | 1 | 1804-02-24 | 20 | Female | dark mulatto | 5 | 4.5 | has a small scar in the center of her forehead | emancipated by deed | Amelia County | John Brumskill | emancipated by deed bearing date the twenty third day of May 1803 and admitted to record in the county Court of Amelia the twenty second day of September following. | |||||||
| Sucky | Scott | 3 | 1804-01-26 | Female | bright mulatto | 2 | 8 | has a large scar in her left temple | emancipated by deed | Amelia County | James Scott | emancipated by deed bearing date the 15th day of September 1803 and admitted to record in the county court of Amelia the 22nd day of the same month |
Notes and Questions
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Which date is the certification and which is the registration?
Sucky's information continues on the next page.
You need a column of when the person was made free. It is an important date also. Then people can do a search for that date to see who else was freed on same date, possibly by same person in same deed and they may be related.
Hi Clsburbank, I agree this is interesting information to capture. We only see this for a few localities which is probably why we did not think to add it as a indexing field. For now, I think we could add it in the "Additional Information" field as you seem to have done!
Hi, I am revising what I wrote a month ago! After reading more carefully, I realized I was wrong! The clerk recorded when Lucy and Sucky were emancipated and when their emancipation records were admitted to court. The date at the end of each entry is the registration date. There is no certification date. I've updated the entries.
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