Virginia Cohabitation Records
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Virginia State Law[edit | edit source]
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]
| County | Title | Repository |
| Amelia | Freedmen's Marriage License Book, 1865-1869 | Library of Virginia |
| Augusta | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | County Courthouse |
| Buckingham | Register of Children of Colored Persons | Library of Virginia |
| Caroline | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | County Courthouse |
| Culpeper | Register of Colored Persons cohabiting together as Husband and Wife | Library of Virginia |
| 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 Library |
| Louisa | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | NARA |
| Lunenburg | Register of Colored Persons of Lunenburg County, State of Virginia, cohabiting together as Husband and Wife | Library of Virginia |
| Lynchburg City | Register of Colored Population, 1865 | Library of Virginia |
| Montgomery | Register of Colored Population, 1865 | NARA |
| Nelson | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | NARA |
| New Kent | 1866 List of Male Freed Negroes and Former Owners | Library of Virginia |
| Prince Edward | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | Library of Virginia |
| Princess Anne | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | Library of Virginia |
| Rappahannock | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | Library of Virginia |
| Richmond | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | Library of Virginia |
| Roanoke | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | Library of Virginia |
| Rockbridge | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | NARA |
| Surry | Freedmen's Cohabitation Register | Library of Virginia; County Courthouse |
| York | Register of Colored Population, 1865 | NARA; Yorktown Library |
References[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.