Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

Record Detail

Record #3 from Virginia Free Negro Registrations , 1793-1861 (Library of Virginia African American Narratives project)

File Name _0001_0003_0001-0002
Type of Certificate register
Year 1837
Certificate Number 937
First Name James
Middle Name
Surname Ashby
Suffix
Alias
Gender
Age
Physical Description black
Occupation
Name of Parent
Name of Children
Name of Spouse
Form of Emancipation emancipated by will
Slave Owner's Name James Ashby
Locality of Origination
Additional Surnames
Recorder's Notes born about 1815
Processor's Notes
EAD http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi01386.xml
Locality Accomack County
Source Accomack County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1744-1861

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