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1 day ago · After expressing an interest in the Civil War and slavery, Brown was asked to comb through the probate records index. The index includes wills, inventories, and estate accounts from 1742, the year Fairfax County was founded, to 1865, when the Civil War ended.
Jul 9, 2024 · These data have been painstakingly extracted from 2,975 legislative petitions and 14,512 county court petitions, and from a wide range of related documents, including wills, inventories, deeds, bills of sale, depositions, court proceedings, amended petitions, among others.
Jul 3, 2024 · Based on the date of the vital event (birth, death, marriage, divorce), determine whether you are seeking a state, territory, county, or parish level record. If the record you are seeking has been digitized, you can access it online, through the projects described below.
Jun 21, 2024 · The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was a law that gave permission to local governments to capture escaped slaves and return them to their owners. It also imposed penalties on anyone who impeded the capture and return of escaped slaves.
- Harry Searles
Jun 18, 2024 · Slavery and the Slave Trade. Primary source guide on slave trade contains legal documentation, ship manifests, corporate information, and variety of other documents concerning the industry of slavery.
- Chris Burns
- 2016
Jul 6, 2024 · Tens of thousands of slaves, from New York to Georgia, fled their owners, including slaves owned by Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. In New Hampshire and Massachusetts, new state constitutions in the 1780s effectively outlawed slavery.
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2 days ago · If a record cannot be located in the Secretary of State’s database, a search of the Archives at the Wisconsin State Historical Society is suggested. Click here to search the Deeds Database.
