Pittsylvania County "Register of Free Negroes", 1807-1865

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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
Catharine		Stephens		63	1826-06-20	45	Female	black	5	2	has short woolly hair with a small scar between her eyes occasioned as she says by the chicken pox	emancipated by deed		John Terry
Lucrelia		Stephens			1826-06-20	28			4	9.75	has short woolly hair and a small scar on the left side of the face opposite the cheek	emancipated by deed		John Terry

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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
Wilmoth		Stephens		65	1826-06-20	25	Female	black	4	11.25	has no apparent mark or scar	born free/free born						Catharine Stephens
Phillis		Stephens		66	1826-06-20	22	Female	black	5	3.5	has short woolly hair has a scar on the right cheek about 2 inches long occasioned by the cut of a knife and one on the right arm occasioned by a burn							Catharine Stephens
Aggy		Stephens		67	1826-06-20	19	Female	black	5	3.5	has short woolly hair without any apparent mark or scar							Catharine Stephens

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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
Giles		Davis		68	1826-07-17		Male	bright mulatto	5	10	has bushy hair without any apparent mark or scar	born free/free born							Who served his time with Jonathan B. Dawson; twenty one years of age the 5th of May last
Booker	Hendrick			69	1826-09-18		Male	black	5	2.5	has short bushy hair a small scar on his forehead over the left eye near the edge of his hair & has a considerable gap or space between his under front teeth	other							free born man of colour who was bound by an order of the court of said County to Obadiah Ham with whom he served an apprenticeship until his arrival to the age of twenty one years

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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
Richard		Lynch		70	1827-01-05	24	Male	dark mulatto	5	8.25	has a scar on the back of his left hand occasioned by a cut	emancipated by will	Pittsylvania County	John Ward Senior					At the instance of John Ward and Lynch Dillard, executors of the last will and Testament of John Ward senior; certified to be correct at January Court 1827
Darcus				71	1827-01-05	22	Female	bright	5	1.25	a scar on the first joint of the fore finger of the left hand	emancipated by will	Pittsylvania County	John Ward Senior					wife of Richard Lynch

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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
Rhoda		Lynch		72	1827-01-05	0.25						emancipated by will	Pittsylvania County	John Ward senior				Darcas Lynch	father: Richard Lynch
Betsy		Roberts		73	1827-01-05	17	Female	rather light	5	4.25	a small scar under the left jaw occasioned by a burn, her forefinger on the right hand crooked at the last nail or joint	emancipated by will	Pittsylvania County	John Ward senior				Hannah	father: Pleasant

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