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

Record Detail

Record #12 from Virginia Petitions to Remain in the Commonwealth, 1846-1866 (Library of Virginia African American Narratives project)

File Name _0009_0003_0001-0004
Year 1851
Petitioner First Name James
Middle Name
Petitioner Surname Ashby
Petitioner Alias
Method of Emancipation
Previous Owner
Approved unknown
Affiants
Additional Slave Names
Additional Free Blacks
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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