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Lynchburg City "Free Negro Register", 1813-1843

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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
Pleasant Logan 397 1832-07-02 29 Male "very dark brown" 5 8.5 “Has a scar on the right side of his forehead one on his right arm above the wrist joint a small mark in his right cheek” born free/free born
Patience 398 1832-07-06 49 Female "dark mulatto" 5 1 “Has several scars around her mouth” emancipated by will Powhatan John L Jonathin Pleasants “Was emancipated by a clerk of the Courts of appeals in virtue of the bills of John L Jonathin Pleasants as appears by the certificate of the Clerk of Powhatan”
James Cousins 399 1832-07-14 23 Male "dark brown" 5 5 “Right eye out and has a large scar on the back of his left leg below the calf” born free/free born “Registered in the Clerks office of the Hustings Court of the Corporation of Lynchburg by order of court made at May Term 1830 number 399”
Absolam Driver 400 1832-07-16 “Absolam Driver register Renewed (301)”
Ann Eliza Hile 401 1832-07-24 22 Female "dark yellow" 5 0.5 “Has a small scar on her forehead two deep scars on her right arm above the elbow” born free/free born “Registered in the Clerk’s office of the Hustings Court of the Corporation of Lynchburg by order of court made at October Term 1831 and number 401”
Sally A Scott 402 1832-07-30 18 Female "dark brown" 5 0.5 “Has one small scar on her right wrist and one on her left wrist (has at this time two marks on her upper lip near her left nostril said by her to be ring worms and [illegible] of [illegible])” born free/free born “Registered in the Clerk’s office of the Hustings Court of the Corporation of Lynchburg by order of court made at April Court 1830 and no 402”
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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
Elizabeth Button 403 1832-08-27 19 Female "dark brown" 5 3 “Has a scar on her forehead a scar on her right hand below her forefinger” born free/free born “Registered in the office of the Hustings Court of the Corporation of Lynchburg by order made at Nov Court 1831 No 403”
Sally Valentine 404 1832-09-18 23 Female "dark brown" 5 8 “The forefinger on her left hand crooked has no other mark or scar perceptible” born free/free born “Registered in the office of the Hustings Court of the Corporation of Lynchburg by order made at April Court 1832 No 404”
Danie Smith 405 1832-09-22 “Danie Smith register No 207 Renewed 22 Sept 1832”
Pitman Scott 406 1832-09-22 27 Male "Black" 5 3 “A defect in his left eye a small scar on his right hand between the fore and middle fingers” born free/free born “Registered in the office of the Hustings Court of the Corporation of Lynchburg by order made at October Court 1828 No 406”
Anthony Robert 405 1832-11-13 32 Male 4 4.5 “Has a scar on the chin and two scars near together on the wrist joint of his left hand” born free/free born Mecklenburg County “Was born free in the county of Mecklenburg as appears by the certificate of the Clerk of the [illegible] County Court”
Caroline Matilda James 406 1832-11-16 “Caroline Matilda James Register 361 Renewed”
Robert Green 407 1832-11-21 "Robert Green Register No 338 Renewed"
408 1832-11-27 29 Male "bright mulatto" 5 8 “A large scar on his right arm above the elbow joint a small ear on the end of the forefinger of his right hand a small scar on the right side of his forehead a scar on the front of each leg” emancipated by deed Lynchburg Samuel H Brown “Was emancipated by Samuel H Brown by deed duly recorded in the Clerks office of the Hustings Court of Lynchburg”
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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
Joe 409 1832-12-12 28 Male "black" 5 “Has a scar on the back of his left hand and one on the lower joint of the forefinger of his right hand.” emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Charles 409 1832-12-12 28 Male "mulatto" 5 6 “Has a small scar on his left eye brow.” emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Ben 409 1832-12-12 18 Male "dark mulatto" 5 4 “Has a small scar on the left side of his forehead” emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Grandelle 409 1832-12-12 17 Male "dark mulatto" 5 5.75 “Has a scar on his forehead one in his left eye brow [sic] and one in his hair above the left eye a scar on the right side of his under lip” emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Armistead 409 1832-12-12 12 Male "bright mulatto" 4 8.25 “No marks perceptible” emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Charles 409 1832-12-12 11 Male "mulatto" 4 7.25 “Has a small scar in his forehead” emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Matt Harry 409 1832-12-12 9 Male "dark yellow" 4 4 “No marks or scar perceptible” emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
John 409 1832-12-12 7 Male "black" 3 11 “Has a scar on his left temple occasioned by a burn and not [illegible]” emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Phibe 409 1832-12-12 26 Female "mulatto" 5 1.25 “Has no perceivable mark” emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich “Her three children Jefferson Reves a boy about 5 years old Ann Matilda a girl about three years of age William Henry a boy about 15 months old these three children are mulattos” "Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Jefferson Reves 409 1832-12-12 5 Male "mulatto" emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich Phibe “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Ann Matilda 409 1832-12-12 3 Female "mulatto" emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich Phibe “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
William Henry 409 1832-12-12 1.25 Male "mulatto" emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich Phibe “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Maria 409 1832-12-12 16 Female "bright mulatto" “Has a small scar near her left eye” emancipated Thomas S. Leftwich “Was emancipated by Thomas S Leftwich on condition that they go to [illegible] but if they do not to return to his review”
Thomas Smith 410 1832-12-31 “Thomas Smith register no 156 Renewed”
Jamus Fields 411 1833-07-18 25 Male "dark yellow" 5 3 “The fore and middle finger of his left and off a scar on the back of his left hand a small scar on his face just below his left eye his left knee very much scared a scar on the breast near the right nipple” born free/free born “Registered in the Clerks office of Hustings Court of the Corporation of Lynchburg by order of Court made at October term 1830 No 411”
Barnell Scott 412 1833-03-14 “Barnell Scott Register Renewed No 250”
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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
James Barsons 413 1833-03-21 73 Male dark 5 11 has a small scar on the forehead, a scar on the forefinger of the righthand, no other scars or marks percievable [sic] born free/free born occupation: waterman
Alexander Cottrill 414 1833-03-21 24 Male dark 5 9 has no apparent mark or scar born free/free born occupation: boatman
James Armstrong 415 1833-04-05 25 Male light yellow 6 0.75 has a scar on the right side of his breast, a scar on the left corner of the left eye brow, curling hair born free/free born 1807-07-15 Judy Armstrong
John Pago 416 1833-07-19 37 Male black 5 5.5 a scar on the rihg thand, one on the throat, one on the right side of his nose and one on the left wrist born free/free born born free as appears by the certificate of the Clerk of the County Court of Chesterfield dated 14 May 1827 - No. 557 - by occupation a boatman
Busten Dickson 417 1833-08-20
Nancy Nancy Evans 418
Dick Parsons 419 Male
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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
Peter Parsons 420 1833-10-04 21 Male "Black" 5 5 “Has a scar on the left side of the neck” born free/free born Court of Hustings for the City of Richmond” “About twenty one years of age in August last” “Was born free as appears by the certificate of the Clerk of the Court of Hustings for the City of Richmond”
Pleasant Logan 421 “Register no 397 renewed Pleasant Logan”
Burwell Colman 422 1833-10-09 Male "light yellow" 5 9 “Black curly hair- has a large scar under the right jaw, winding towards the mouth- a scar on the left side of his face under the ear- several scars on the left should on the front [illegible] - one on the back of the right shoulder- and a longer scar on the left breast” emancipated Lynchburg George Doyle “Emancipated by George Doyle of Lynchburg” “aged about twenty three years in June 1833”
Billy Merchant 423 1833-10-06 50 Male "dark yellow" 5 3.5 “Has a scar on the back of his left hand his right eye out” born free/free born Bedford County Court “Registered as free in the County of Bedford in Sept 1803 as appears by the certificate of the Clerk of Bedford County Court”
Fanny Merchant Fanny Mason 424 1833-10-26 42 Female "bright mulatto" 5 0.625 “No scar or mark perceivable” born free/free born “Wife of William Merchant” “Was born free as appears by the certificate of the clerk of Bedford County Court”
Sarah Johnson 425 1833-10-31 40 Female "bright mulatto" 5 1.25 “No scar perceivable about her head face or hands but has one on her left foot” born free/free born “Registered in the Clerk office of the Hustings Court of the Corporation of Lynchburg by order of Court made at October court 1828 number 425”
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