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
James Robinson 30 1825-02-12 1825-05-16 24 Male bright mulatto 5 5.25 no visible mark or scar born free/free born Prince William County Prince William County William Moss produced a certificate of Register from Philip D. Dane clerk of the County Court of Prince William
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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
James 31 1825-08-16 1825-08-16 36 Male black 5 10.5 emancipated by deed John Cartwright William Moss liberated by John Cartwright as appears by a Deed of manumission from the said Jno Cartwright duly acknowledged in open court on the 22nd day of January 1799
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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
Priscilla Mody 32 1825-08-17 1825-08 31 Female black 5 0.5 Two scars on the back of her right hand, one of which is near the wrist emancipated by will Fairfax County Rachel Wheeler William Moss in whom Ignatius Wheeler the husband of said Rachel had a life estate as appears by an affidavit of Henrietta Williams made before George Gunnell Gent. a justice of the peace for the said County of Fairfax
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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
Letty Gantt 33 1811-10-17 1825-10-17 24 Female black 4 11.5 scar on the side of her neck under the right ear and scars on the three last fingers of her right hand emancipated County of Fairfax Joshua Hutchinson and Thomas Coffer William Moss appears to have been bound by Joshua Hutchinson and Thomas Coffer Ovreseers of the Poor in the County of Fairfax to David W. Scott until she should attain the age of 18 years, by virtue of an order of Court obtained for that purpose on the 20 March 1811, at which time she was 10 years olf
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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
Nancy 34 1825-11-21 20 Female black 5 1.5 large scar on the right side of her breast, two small scars on the left side of her neck and several small scars on her left wrist born free/free born Rose emancipated William Moss daughter of Rose set free by Genl Washington and was born since the emancipation of said Rose, as appears by an affidavit of James Spencer made before Laurence Lewis Gent. a Justice of the Peace for said County of Fairfax
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