Virginia Cohabitation Records
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The Cohabitation Records, offically titled, "Register of Colored Persons, Augusta County, State of Virginia, Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife," are a record of free African American families living in Virginia immediately after the end of the Civil War. The records were created by the Freedmen's Bureau in an effort to document the marriages of formerly enslaved men and women that were legally recognized by an act of the Virginia Assembly in February 1866. [1]
| Location | Title | Repository |
| Amelia [1] | Freedmen's Marriage License Book, 1865-1869 | Library of Virginia |
| Augusta | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | County Courthouse |
| Caroline | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | County Courthouse |
| Floyd | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | Library of Virginia; County Courthouse |
| Goochland | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | Library of Virginia; NARA |
| Grayson | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | NARA |
| Hanover | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | Library of Virginia; County Courthouse |
| Henry | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | Bassett Historical Library; Blue Ridge Reg. Library |
| Louisa | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | NARA |
| Lynchburg | ||
| Montgomery | ||
| Nelson | ||
| New Kent | ||
| Prince Edward | ||
| Princess Anne | ||
| Rappahannock | ||
| Richmond | ||
| Roanoke | ||
| Rockbridge | ||
| Surry | ||
| York |
Sources[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 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: xxxiv.