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Andrew Reid Record Book
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Lev13
Scope and Contents
Copy of a record book kept by Andrew Reid, clerk of Rockbridge County, Virginia, entitled "For the Registering of Free Negroes [of Rockbridge County] according to the Act . . . of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed January 25, 1803" which includes physical descriptions, ages, information on former owners and record of emancipation. The volume was also used as a registry of boats to comply with An act of the General Assembly of Virginia entitled "an act regulating the navigation of...
Dates:
1803-1828
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
George M. Pennybacker Ledgers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ad133-134
Scope and Contents
Ledgers, 1835-1843 and 1866-1873, of a farmer kept in Rockingham County, Va. The earlier account book includes accounts with free blacks [William Wanser and William Cook (formerly W. Canada)].
Dates:
1835-1874
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Shenandoah Iron Works [D. & H. Forrer] Ledgers, 1851-1866
Collection
Identifier: Mss. MsV Ad82-83
Scope and Contents
Ledger (MsV Ad82 ovesize)time book), 1851-1866, and ledger (MsV Ad83), 1865-1866, of the commissary [company store] of D. & H. Forrer, Shenandoah Iron Works, Page County, Virginia. The latter volume lists foodstuffs and goods given out to workers which they often paid for by work. Includes accounts with free blacks.
Dates:
1851-1866
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center