Fairfax County "Register of Free Negroes", 1822-1835

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First Name Middle Name Last Name Alias Registration number Date of registration Date of certification Age Gender Color Height- Feet Height - Inches Marks or scars Eye color Description of hair Speech Free status Where emancipated Who emancipated Previous place of registration Date of birth Place of birth Name of mother Color of mother Free status of mother Name of father Free status of father Name of spouse Free status of spouse Name of children Name of clerk Additional information
Nat 1 1822-09-16 1822-09-16 45 Male 5 10 a number of scars on the breast emancipated by deed John Moss William Moss by a deed of manumission dated the 7th day of December 1795 and duly acknowledged before the said Court and now of record in my office did among others set free and exonerate him the said negro Nat from service at the expiration of twenty seven years from the date of the said deed
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First Name Middle Name Last Name Alias Registration number Date of registration Date of certification Age Gender Color Height- Feet Height - Inches Marks or scars Eye color Description of hair Speech Free status Where emancipated Who emancipated Previous place of registration Date of birth Place of birth Name of mother Color of mother Free status of mother Name of father Free status of father Name of spouse Free status of spouse Name of children Name of clerk Additional information
Ann 2 1822-11-18 1822-11-18 27 Female bright complexion 5 4.5 a scar on the right arm and one on the right wrist born free/free born 1795-12-03 Milly emancipated William Moss certificate of Hannah Adams widow of Samuel Adams deceased shows the bearer here of Ann daughter of Milly who was liberated by the said Samuel Adams deceased
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First Name Middle Name Last Name Alias Registration number Date of registration Date of certification Age Gender Color Height- Feet Height - Inches Marks or scars Eye color Description of hair Speech Free status Where emancipated Who emancipated Previous place of registration Date of birth Place of birth Name of mother Color of mother Free status of mother Name of father Free status of father Name of spouse Free status of spouse Name of children Name of clerk Additional information
John John Butler 3 1823-07-22 1823-07-22 25 Male dark complexion 5 6.5 has a scar on the brow over the left eye, another one upon the left arm, of a Whitish Colour emancipated by will Fairfax County Lawrence Washington William Moss from the last will and testament of Lawrence Washington dated 15th day of November 1799 that the bearer here of John amongst other other slaves bequeathed by him to Ann Thompson to serve untill he should arrive to the age of twenty five years
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First Name Middle Name Last Name Alias Registration number Date of registration Date of certification Age Gender Color Height- Feet Height - Inches Marks or scars Eye color Description of hair Speech Free status Where emancipated Who emancipated Previous place of registration Date of birth Place of birth Name of mother Color of mother Free status of mother Name of father Free status of father Name of spouse Free status of spouse Name of children Name of clerk Additional information
Dennis 4 1823-11-18 1824-01-20 28 Male dark mulatto 5 7 a small scar on the right wrist emancipated Fairfax County Martha Washington Sally Richardson emancipated William Moss a son of Sally Richardson who was lately a slave belonging to Genl George Washington who by his last will and testament devised him to Martha Washington during her life who by an instrument of Writing duly proved and recorded in the said Court released them both from the service due to her
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