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United States > Rural Records of the Southern United States > Cohabitation Records > Mississippi

Mississippi State Law[edit | edit source]

Sec. 3 Be it further enacted, that all freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes, who do now and have heretofore lived and cohabited together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally married, and the issue shall be taken and held as legitimate for all purposes. [1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. White, Barnetta McGhee, Ph.D.,Somebody Knows My Name: Marriages of Freed People in N.C. County by County.(Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing Co.), 1995: xxxi.

See also:[edit | edit source]

Rural Records of the Southern United States