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Petersburg City "Register of Free Negroes and Mulattoes", 1831-1839

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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
Martha Nichols 2085 1831-11-07 22 Female light brown complexion 5 3 small round scar over her left eyebrow born free/free born Prince George County DM Bernard height with shoes, Prince George county No 340
William Harris 2086 1831-11-07 26 Male yellowish complexion 5 9.5 a scar on his right temple born free/free born Charles City County DM Bernard height in shoes, Charles County No. 438
Frederick Valentine 2087 1831-11-07 28 Male brownish complextion 5 8.5 small scar on the back of each of her hands born free/free born Prince George County DM Bernard height in shoes, Prince George County No. 140
Mary Ruff 2088 1831-11-07 42 Female yellowish complexion 5 8.5 small scar on her left arm just above the elbow & another on her right wrist born free/free born Prince George County DM Bernard Prince George County No. 147. Renewed July 29, 1856 order of Court
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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
Mary Batte 2089 1831-11-07 22 Female light Yellow complexion 5 5.5 has a thin visage but no perceivable scar born free/free born Prince George County No 370 DM Bernard D.C. 1846 April 20th Renewed. 1857 June 27th Renewed by order of court
Henry Claiborne 2090 1831-11-08 20 Male dark brown complexion 5 4 has a scar over his left eye-& two on his left arm, one of which is a little above the other, & the other a little above the elbow born free/free born DM Bernard D.C. 1847 August 3rd Renewed [illegible] high. 1853 June 20 by order of court
Tom Scott 275 1831-11-09 46 Male brownish complexion 5 9 his name and an Eagle imprinted on the inside of his right arm born free/free born this office DM Bernard D.C.
Elira Rivers 2091 1831-11-09 14 Female dark brown complection 4 10.5 has lost the end of her right thumb. Has something like a small ward or berry in her right eyebrow born free/free born Nancy Rivers colour Free J. Grammer registered by desire of their said mother under whose charge they now are. Renewed 16 Mar. 1838. 5 feet 1 inch high.
Jane Rivers 2092 1831-11-09 10 Female dark brown complection has been crippled and injured in her back which occasions considerable injurious effect to her left eye born free/free born Nancy Rivers colour Free J. Grammer registered by desire of their said mother under whose charge they now are.
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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
Rebecca Jones 2093 1831-11-10 35 Female dark complexion 5 5.5 a small scar near the fuller corner of her left eye, another just over the same, and several others over her right eye on the forehead born free/free born Prince George County DM Bernard Prince George County No 173
Milly 2094 1831-11-10 48 Female black complexion 5 0.5 has a scar in her forehead, over the left eye, and another on the under part of her left jaw emancipated by will Jeremiah Warthan Prince George County DM Bernard emancipation date: November 11, 1804. Prince George County No 114
Milly Campbell 2095 1831-11-10 44 Female yellowish complexion 5 1.5 has a scar on her right hand occasioned by a burn, another on the right side of her forehead, and another on the right side of her face emancipated by will Thomas Harrison Prince George County DM Bernard date of will: May 17, 1799 Prince George County No 130 Renewed June 20, 1844 face very much pitted with smallpox
2096 1831-11-10
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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
Francis Cate 2097 1831-11-11 58 Male dark brown 5 7 has a scar on the back of his left hand emancipated Prince George County Thomas Chappell Prince George County DM Bernard No. 247 Received 15 Dec 1835
Ritter Dangerfield 2098 1831-11-12 48 Female dark brown 5 1 has a scar on the left side of her forehead near the hair emancipated Prince George County Agnes Chappell Prince George County DM Bernard Received June 26, 1851. Dead and papers destroyed June 9th, 1858.
Betsey Peter 2099 1831-11-12 40 Female dark 5 3 has a scar on the outer corner of her left eye, and another on her right arm, about half way between the wrist & elbow born free/free born DM Bernard born free as appears by a certificate by the Clerk of Prince Geo. County Ct No. 70. 1841 Dec 14th Renewed
Becky Gray 2100 1831-11-12 35 Female black 5 3 has a scar on her right breast, occasioned by a burn emancipated by will Nottoway County Milly Gray DM Bernard Renewed 31 Mar 1838 5 feet 2 1/2 inches high
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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
Eliza Dangerfield 2102 1831-11-12 1831-11-12 22 Female dark complexion 5 2 scar on her right shoulder in front and one on the right side of her neck born free/free born Dm Bernard born free is attested by the oath of Mary Ann Davis
Catharine Dangerfield 2103 1831-11-12 1831-11-12 21 Female dark complexion 5 0 scar on the right side of her chin born free/free born D M Bernard born free is attested by the oath of Mary Ann Davis
Elizabeth Albert 2104 1831-11-14 1831-11-14 25 Female dark brown complexion 5 1.25 scar on her right cheek and one on the back of her right hand near the wrist born free/free born D M Bernard
Sarah Jones 2105 1831-11-14 1831-11-14 33 Female black complexion 5 2 scar on her right arm just above the elbow born free/free born D M Bernard
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