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Robert Chirver Registration
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-034
Abstract
This collection contains one "free man of color" registration for Robert Chirver or Chirves, a resident of Petersburg, Virginia. Signed and dated May 4, 1841, at Petersburg, this form was proof of Chirver's status as a free man.
Dates:
1841
Barbary Wilson Deed of Emancipation for Harry
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-077
Abstract
This collection contains a deed of emancipation signed by enslaver Barbary Wilson of Bath County, Virginia, freeing Harry, identified as a Black man, on January 5, 1822. Harry was one of 14 people that Wilson had enslaved and manumitted in 1822.
Dates:
1822
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