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Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics. \u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi02207#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vi_vi02207","ead_ssi":"vi_vi02207","_root_":"vi_vi02207","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi02207","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi02207.xml","title_ssm":["Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1781-1942 (bulk 1840-1916)"],"title_tesim":["Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1781-1942 (bulk 1840-1916)"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Brunswick County (Va.) 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According to Black's Law Dictionary they are \"administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law.\" A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case; however, the judge is basing the decision on findings compiled and documented by Commissioners. Chancery causes are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history. Chancery causes document the lived experiences of free and enslaved individuals; women; children; people living with physical disabilities or mental health struggles; people living in poverty; defunct institutions and corporate entities; or those that may not have otherwise left traditional written histories.\n","Locality History:  Brunswick County was named for the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, one of the German possessions of King George I. It was formed by statute in 1720 from Prince George County and on 31 October 1723 the boundaries of the county were ordered to be laid out. However, because of the sparse population, the county court first met in June 1732. Brunswick County was enlarged by the addition of parts of Surry and Isle of Wight counties in 1733. The county seat is Lawrenceville.\n","Lost Locality Note:  Most loose records prior to 1781 are missing. Pre-1781 volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist. \n","Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1781-1942, were processed in multiple chunks. Chancery causes that ended between 1781 and 1928 were processed by L. Jones and completed in 1999; additional chancery causes ending between 1846 and 1928 were processed by R. Smith and P. Connelly and completed in 2000. Chancery Causes 1781-1869 were reprocessed by T. Harter and S. Bagley and completed in 2022.","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1781-1869 were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program in 2023, with additional funds provided by the Library of Virginia Foundation and the Jamestowne Society.","Encoded by S. Nerney: June 2007; updated by C. Collins: February 2024.","Additional Brunswick County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult  A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.","Brunswick County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Brunswick County Records may be found in the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available the Library of Virginia website.","Efforts have been taken to identify business records related to chancery suits as some business records were used as evidence in court proceedings. For a list of business records for Brunswick County, see also:   “A Guide to the Brunswick County (Va.) Business Records, 1850-1924”","Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1781-1942, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics.\n","Chancery causes that ended before 1865, as well as some that ended afterwards, may contain information related to enslaved Black and multiracial individuals. However, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. Under the system of chattel slavery, laws permitted enslavers to treat enslaved people as personal possessions in the same manner as livestock, farm equipment, or household items.\n","Chancery Causes 1781-1869 are primarily comprised of debt suits, estate suits, and contract suits. The estate suits sometimes reference enslaved persons and involve the division and distribution of property and women suing for dower rights. The contract suits concern disputes surrounding grist mills, carpentry businesses, and grocery stores, among other things, while the debt suits involve both businesses and private citizens.","Commonly found surnames among the plaintiffs and defendants include Abernathy, Bass, Britt, Browder, Brown, Buford, Carpenter, Chambliss (also spelled Chambless and Chamblis), Cheely, Claiborne, Clary, Clayton, Coleman, Daniel, Davis, Dromgoole, Drummond, Dugger (also spelled Duggar), Edmunds, Edwards, Field, Fisher, Floyd, Goodrich, Goodwyn, Green, Hall, Hardaway (also spelled Hardiway), Harris, Harrison, Harwell, Haskins, Hawthorn (also spelled Hawthorne), Heartwell, Hicks, Hill, House, Huff, Ingram, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Kelly, Lanier, Lewis, Lucy, MacLin (also spelled MacKlin), Mallory, Malone, Manson, Mason, Matthews, Meade, Meredith, Mitchell, Moore, Moseley (also spelled Mosely), Orgain, Parham, Pearson, Peebles, Pennington, Phipps, Powell, Price, Pritchett, Raney (also spelled Rainey), Rawlings, Rice, Robinson, Seward, Seymour (also spelled Seymore), Shell, Short, Smith, Stainback, Stith, Taylor, Temple, Thomas, Trotter, Tucker, Turnbull, Vaughan, Walker, Walton (also spelled Wallton), Wesson, White, Wilkins, Wilkinson, Williams, Wright, and Wyche.","Allison \u0026 Addison is involved in 9 suits between 1879 and 1919; the Camp Manufacturing Company is involved in 22 suits between 1905 and 1915; Manson \u0026 Shell Company (also called Manson \u0026 Shell) is involved in 20 suits between 1890 and 1914; the Methodist Episcopal Church South is involved in 10 suits between 1886 and 1910; and Peebles \u0026 Purdy Company (also Peebles \u0026 Purdy Company Inc. and Peebles \u0026 Purdy) is involved in 13 suits between 1909 and 1917.","Kezia, Flora, and Jenny Crook, formerly enslaved sisters, claimed to be the daughters of Joseph Crook, their former enslaver. They stated that they, along with Betty Crook, their mother, were emancipated by Crook in 1782 and that Crook married Betty after the death of his first wife. Kezia, Flora, and Jenny accused their mother, Crook’s white children, and Thomas Stewart, a free Black doctor who lived in Dinwiddie County, of conspiring to destroy the will and deny the plaintiffs their share of their father’s estate. Crook’s white children claimed that their father never emancipated Betty and her children, and, even if he had, Betty was never legally married to Crook since interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia. \n ","This suit involves a division of 68 people enslaved by William Rice prior to his death. Details noted about the enslaved people as part of the division include their names; familial relationships; marriages [which were not formally recognized by the state of Virginia until 1866]; and valuations.\n ","The bill and decrees associated with this suit are missing, so the cause of action unclear. However, the suit concerns the construction of a bridge over Meherrin Creek near Pennington’s Ford (Brunswick, Va.).  Affidavits, depositions, and accounts included in the suit provide details regarding work hours, injuries, and the skills of the 17 enslaved workers and two free Black men who worked on the bridge.\n ","Richard R. Brown alleged that Benjamin Taylor, John Taylor’s brother, helped John Taylor avoid the payment of a debt due Brown and others by falsely claiming over 20 people enslaved by the defendant. Brown claimed that John Taylor planned to move to Florida with the enslaved persons and he sought an injunction to prevent Taylor from removing the enslaved persons from the state.\n ","William H. Gholson was bequeathed two enslaved persons while a minor, during which time one was sold. One affidavit references Moses, an enslaved man, being sold “in order that he might go with his wife.”\n ","Elizabeth Pritchett, widow of James Pritchett, and several of James Pritchett's heirs sought the court's aid in dividing and distributing his estate. Pritchett asked the court to recognize her dower rights to 1/3 of the land owned by the decendent and to 1/3 of the people enslaved by the decedent in Alabama and Arkansas. The suit includes valuations of over 50 named enslaved people.     \n ","Edwin C. Drummond, the defendant, was a resident of Georgia. He was indebted to Henry Price, one of the plaintiffs, and others for unpaid tailoring and footwear bills from his time as a student at the University of Virginia. The plaintiffs sought to recover the debt through land Drummond owned in Brunswick County. Consult the  UncommonWealth blog  for a post about this chancery cause published on August 7, 2019.\n ","John H. Walker, the complainant, and Robert S. Hardaway, the defendant, were partners in a business involved in the trade of enslaved persons from 1819 to 1822. Two letters from Walker to Hardaway discuss cotton prices, the surplus of enslaved people in the Georgia market and the resulting adverse effect on prices, and Walker’s trip from Virginia to Georgia through the Carolinas with several enslaved people.\n ","Lucy L. Birthright, the mother of Mary A. L. Ogburn, sought to pay her daughter's expenses at a school for the “deaf and dumb” through the sale of several persons enslaved by Birthright as her dower property.\n ","Nancy Johnson claimed that Ben, an enslaved man, was a “notorious runaway” and thief “whose conduct has so alarmed and inflamed the public against him that he is liable to be in constant danger of being put to death.” She hoped to sell him and invest the proceeds in another enslaved person.\n ","This suit involves the sale of Nathan, an enslaved man. It also includes Lightfoot’s memorandum book, which lists several enslaved people sold on his trips from Virginia to Alabama in the 1830s and 1840s.\n ","Jesse and Allen, two enslaved men, drowned in the Meherrin River after being ordered by Benjamin Hall to gather wheat growing along the edge of the water. Hall attempted to save Jesse and Allen by sending other enslaved persons to assist them and later claimed that he was unaware of Jesse and Allen’s inability to swim. John F. E. Lewis, Hall’s employer, had borrowed Jesse and Allen from the estate of Gray Dunn, of which he was the executor. Lewis sought to deny responsibility for the drowning of Jesse and Allen and clear himself and Hall of any liability or monetary responsibility.\n ","Lucretia Atkins asked that the court allow her to transport Mortimore, a man enslaved by Atkins, to Richmond and sell him there, believing there was “danger of his being destroyed” in Brunswick County. She claimed that he broke into a storehouse and accused several white persons of complicity, after which they threatened to kill him.\n ","William Samford desired that enslaved persons belonging to his estate be emancipated. He instructed his executor and his two oldest sons to petition the legislature of Virginia to permit the enslaved persons to remain in the county as long they conducted themselves in an orderly and industrious manner. Some of the enslaved persons to be emancipated included Catherine Collier, Lucy Ann, Liberia Ann, Freeman White, and John Arthur. See also 1857-031: Exr. of William Samford vs. Susan J. Samford, etc., and 1857-038: Exr. of William Samford vs. Alexander Eugene Mason Samford, etc.\n ","In this suit, deponents discuss the arrival of Union soldiers sent to Brunswick County and the establishment of a tribunal by the Freedmen’s Bureau, allegedly to protect the county’s Black inhabitants. At the time, the Black population outnumbered the white population and supposedly entertained “exaggerated notions of freedom.” The deponents claim that the Union soldiers, after attempting to associate with the local white population and being rebuffed/facing rejection, instead held company with members the Black population, “over whom [the soldiers] exercised a pernicious influence.” They were “led astray” by the soldiers, who purportedly desired revenge against the white population.\n ","There are no restrictions on use.\n","Library of Virginia\n","English\n"],"collection_title_tesim":["Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1781-1942 (bulk 1840-1916)"],"collection_ssim":["Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1781-1942 (bulk 1840-1916)"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Brunswick County (Va.) Circuit Court.\n"],"creator_ssim":["Brunswick County (Va.) Circuit Court.\n"],"acqinfo_ssim":["A portion of the collection came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court papers from Brunswick County (Va.) in 2000 under the accession number 37202. Additional records were transferred to the library under an undated accession.\n"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["Digital images; 152.55 cubic feet (333 boxes)"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eChancery Causes 1781-1869 use digital images found on the Chancery Records Index available electronically at the website of the Library of Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChancery Causes 1870-1942 are processed and indexed information is available on the Chancery Records Index, but digital images are not available at this time. 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Arranged chronologically.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangement of documents within each folder are generally as follows: Bill, Answer, and Final Decree (if found.)\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement\n"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organized by case, of which each is assigned a unique index number comprised of the latest year found in case and a sequentially increasing 3-digit number assigned by the processor as cases for that year are found. Arranged chronologically.\n","Arrangement of documents within each folder are generally as follows: Bill, Answer, and Final Decree (if found.)"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eContext for Record Type:\u003c/emph\u003e Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are \"administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law.\" A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case; however, the judge is basing the decision on findings compiled and documented by Commissioners. Chancery causes are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history. Chancery causes document the lived experiences of free and enslaved individuals; women; children; people living with physical disabilities or mental health struggles; people living in poverty; defunct institutions and corporate entities; or those that may not have otherwise left traditional written histories.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLocality History:\u003c/emph\u003e Brunswick County was named for the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, one of the German possessions of King George I. It was formed by statute in 1720 from Prince George County and on 31 October 1723 the boundaries of the county were ordered to be laid out. However, because of the sparse population, the county court first met in June 1732. Brunswick County was enlarged by the addition of parts of Surry and Isle of Wight counties in 1733. The county seat is Lawrenceville.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLost Locality Note:\u003c/emph\u003e Most loose records prior to 1781 are missing. Pre-1781 volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist. \n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Context for Record Type:  Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are \"administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law.\" A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case; however, the judge is basing the decision on findings compiled and documented by Commissioners. Chancery causes are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history. Chancery causes document the lived experiences of free and enslaved individuals; women; children; people living with physical disabilities or mental health struggles; people living in poverty; defunct institutions and corporate entities; or those that may not have otherwise left traditional written histories.\n","Locality History:  Brunswick County was named for the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, one of the German possessions of King George I. It was formed by statute in 1720 from Prince George County and on 31 October 1723 the boundaries of the county were ordered to be laid out. However, because of the sparse population, the county court first met in June 1732. Brunswick County was enlarged by the addition of parts of Surry and Isle of Wight counties in 1733. The county seat is Lawrenceville.\n","Lost Locality Note:  Most loose records prior to 1781 are missing. Pre-1781 volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist. \n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1781-1942 (bulk 1840-1916). (Cite style of suit). Local government records collection, Brunswick County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1781-1942 (bulk 1840-1916). (Cite style of suit). Local government records collection, Brunswick County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1781-1942, were processed in multiple chunks. Chancery causes that ended between 1781 and 1928 were processed by L. Jones and completed in 1999; additional chancery causes ending between 1846 and 1928 were processed by R. Smith and P. Connelly and completed in 2000. Chancery Causes 1781-1869 were reprocessed by T. Harter and S. Bagley and completed in 2022.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDigital images of Chancery Causes 1781-1869 were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program in 2023, with additional funds provided by the Library of Virginia Foundation and the Jamestowne Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncoded by S. Nerney: June 2007; updated by C. Collins: February 2024.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information\n"],"processinfo_tesim":["Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1781-1942, were processed in multiple chunks. Chancery causes that ended between 1781 and 1928 were processed by L. Jones and completed in 1999; additional chancery causes ending between 1846 and 1928 were processed by R. Smith and P. Connelly and completed in 2000. Chancery Causes 1781-1869 were reprocessed by T. Harter and S. Bagley and completed in 2022.","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1781-1869 were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program in 2023, with additional funds provided by the Library of Virginia Foundation and the Jamestowne Society.","Encoded by S. Nerney: June 2007; updated by C. Collins: February 2024."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdditional Brunswick County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/local/\"\u003eA Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Brunswick County Records may be found in the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/lost\"\u003eLost Records Localities Digital Collection\u003c/extref\u003e available the Library of Virginia website.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEfforts have been taken to identify business records related to chancery suits as some business records were used as evidence in court proceedings. For a list of business records for Brunswick County, see also: \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi05391.xml\"\u003e “A Guide to the Brunswick County (Va.) Business Records, 1850-1924”\u003c/extref\u003e \n\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material \n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Additional Brunswick County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult  A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.","Brunswick County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Brunswick County Records may be found in the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available the Library of Virginia website.","Efforts have been taken to identify business records related to chancery suits as some business records were used as evidence in court proceedings. For a list of business records for Brunswick County, see also:   “A Guide to the Brunswick County (Va.) Business Records, 1850-1924”"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1781-1942, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChancery causes that ended before 1865, as well as some that ended afterwards, may contain information related to enslaved Black and multiracial individuals. However, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. Under the system of chattel slavery, laws permitted enslavers to treat enslaved people as personal possessions in the same manner as livestock, farm equipment, or household items.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChancery Causes 1781-1869 are primarily comprised of debt suits, estate suits, and contract suits. The estate suits sometimes reference enslaved persons and involve the division and distribution of property and women suing for dower rights. The contract suits concern disputes surrounding grist mills, carpentry businesses, and grocery stores, among other things, while the debt suits involve both businesses and private citizens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommonly found surnames among the plaintiffs and defendants include Abernathy, Bass, Britt, Browder, Brown, Buford, Carpenter, Chambliss (also spelled Chambless and Chamblis), Cheely, Claiborne, Clary, Clayton, Coleman, Daniel, Davis, Dromgoole, Drummond, Dugger (also spelled Duggar), Edmunds, Edwards, Field, Fisher, Floyd, Goodrich, Goodwyn, Green, Hall, Hardaway (also spelled Hardiway), Harris, Harrison, Harwell, Haskins, Hawthorn (also spelled Hawthorne), Heartwell, Hicks, Hill, House, Huff, Ingram, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Kelly, Lanier, Lewis, Lucy, MacLin (also spelled MacKlin), Mallory, Malone, Manson, Mason, Matthews, Meade, Meredith, Mitchell, Moore, Moseley (also spelled Mosely), Orgain, Parham, Pearson, Peebles, Pennington, Phipps, Powell, Price, Pritchett, Raney (also spelled Rainey), Rawlings, Rice, Robinson, Seward, Seymour (also spelled Seymore), Shell, Short, Smith, Stainback, Stith, Taylor, Temple, Thomas, Trotter, Tucker, Turnbull, Vaughan, Walker, Walton (also spelled Wallton), Wesson, White, Wilkins, Wilkinson, Williams, Wright, and Wyche.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllison \u0026amp; Addison is involved in 9 suits between 1879 and 1919; the Camp Manufacturing Company is involved in 22 suits between 1905 and 1915; Manson \u0026amp; Shell Company (also called Manson \u0026amp; Shell) is involved in 20 suits between 1890 and 1914; the Methodist Episcopal Church South is involved in 10 suits between 1886 and 1910; and Peebles \u0026amp; Purdy Company (also Peebles \u0026amp; Purdy Company Inc. and Peebles \u0026amp; Purdy) is involved in 13 suits between 1909 and 1917.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKezia, Flora, and Jenny Crook, formerly enslaved sisters, claimed to be the daughters of Joseph Crook, their former enslaver. They stated that they, along with Betty Crook, their mother, were emancipated by Crook in 1782 and that Crook married Betty after the death of his first wife. Kezia, Flora, and Jenny accused their mother, Crook’s white children, and Thomas Stewart, a free Black doctor who lived in Dinwiddie County, of conspiring to destroy the will and deny the plaintiffs their share of their father’s estate. Crook’s white children claimed that their father never emancipated Betty and her children, and, even if he had, Betty was never legally married to Crook since interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia. \n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis suit involves a division of 68 people enslaved by William Rice prior to his death. Details noted about the enslaved people as part of the division include their names; familial relationships; marriages [which were not formally recognized by the state of Virginia until 1866]; and valuations.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bill and decrees associated with this suit are missing, so the cause of action unclear. However, the suit concerns the construction of a bridge over Meherrin Creek near Pennington’s Ford (Brunswick, Va.).  Affidavits, depositions, and accounts included in the suit provide details regarding work hours, injuries, and the skills of the 17 enslaved workers and two free Black men who worked on the bridge.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard R. Brown alleged that Benjamin Taylor, John Taylor’s brother, helped John Taylor avoid the payment of a debt due Brown and others by falsely claiming over 20 people enslaved by the defendant. Brown claimed that John Taylor planned to move to Florida with the enslaved persons and he sought an injunction to prevent Taylor from removing the enslaved persons from the state.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam H. Gholson was bequeathed two enslaved persons while a minor, during which time one was sold. One affidavit references Moses, an enslaved man, being sold “in order that he might go with his wife.”\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Pritchett, widow of James Pritchett, and several of James Pritchett's heirs sought the court's aid in dividing and distributing his estate. Pritchett asked the court to recognize her dower rights to 1/3 of the land owned by the decendent and to 1/3 of the people enslaved by the decedent in Alabama and Arkansas. The suit includes valuations of over 50 named enslaved people.     \n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin C. Drummond, the defendant, was a resident of Georgia. He was indebted to Henry Price, one of the plaintiffs, and others for unpaid tailoring and footwear bills from his time as a student at the University of Virginia. The plaintiffs sought to recover the debt through land Drummond owned in Brunswick County. Consult the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2019/08/07/money-money-money-running-up-student-debts-in-brunswick-county/\"\u003eUncommonWealth blog\u003c/extref\u003e for a post about this chancery cause published on August 7, 2019.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn H. Walker, the complainant, and Robert S. Hardaway, the defendant, were partners in a business involved in the trade of enslaved persons from 1819 to 1822. Two letters from Walker to Hardaway discuss cotton prices, the surplus of enslaved people in the Georgia market and the resulting adverse effect on prices, and Walker’s trip from Virginia to Georgia through the Carolinas with several enslaved people.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy L. Birthright, the mother of Mary A. L. Ogburn, sought to pay her daughter's expenses at a school for the “deaf and dumb” through the sale of several persons enslaved by Birthright as her dower property.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNancy Johnson claimed that Ben, an enslaved man, was a “notorious runaway” and thief “whose conduct has so alarmed and inflamed the public against him that he is liable to be in constant danger of being put to death.” She hoped to sell him and invest the proceeds in another enslaved person.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis suit involves the sale of Nathan, an enslaved man. It also includes Lightfoot’s memorandum book, which lists several enslaved people sold on his trips from Virginia to Alabama in the 1830s and 1840s.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse and Allen, two enslaved men, drowned in the Meherrin River after being ordered by Benjamin Hall to gather wheat growing along the edge of the water. Hall attempted to save Jesse and Allen by sending other enslaved persons to assist them and later claimed that he was unaware of Jesse and Allen’s inability to swim. John F. E. Lewis, Hall’s employer, had borrowed Jesse and Allen from the estate of Gray Dunn, of which he was the executor. Lewis sought to deny responsibility for the drowning of Jesse and Allen and clear himself and Hall of any liability or monetary responsibility.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucretia Atkins asked that the court allow her to transport Mortimore, a man enslaved by Atkins, to Richmond and sell him there, believing there was “danger of his being destroyed” in Brunswick County. She claimed that he broke into a storehouse and accused several white persons of complicity, after which they threatened to kill him.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Samford desired that enslaved persons belonging to his estate be emancipated. He instructed his executor and his two oldest sons to petition the legislature of Virginia to permit the enslaved persons to remain in the county as long they conducted themselves in an orderly and industrious manner. Some of the enslaved persons to be emancipated included Catherine Collier, Lucy Ann, Liberia Ann, Freeman White, and John Arthur. See also 1857-031: Exr. of William Samford vs. Susan J. Samford, etc., and 1857-038: Exr. of William Samford vs. Alexander Eugene Mason Samford, etc.\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this suit, deponents discuss the arrival of Union soldiers sent to Brunswick County and the establishment of a tribunal by the Freedmen’s Bureau, allegedly to protect the county’s Black inhabitants. At the time, the Black population outnumbered the white population and supposedly entertained “exaggerated notions of freedom.” The deponents claim that the Union soldiers, after attempting to associate with the local white population and being rebuffed/facing rejection, instead held company with members the Black population, “over whom [the soldiers] exercised a pernicious influence.” They were “led astray” by the soldiers, who purportedly desired revenge against the white population.\n \u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1781-1942, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics.\n","Chancery causes that ended before 1865, as well as some that ended afterwards, may contain information related to enslaved Black and multiracial individuals. However, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. Under the system of chattel slavery, laws permitted enslavers to treat enslaved people as personal possessions in the same manner as livestock, farm equipment, or household items.\n","Chancery Causes 1781-1869 are primarily comprised of debt suits, estate suits, and contract suits. The estate suits sometimes reference enslaved persons and involve the division and distribution of property and women suing for dower rights. The contract suits concern disputes surrounding grist mills, carpentry businesses, and grocery stores, among other things, while the debt suits involve both businesses and private citizens.","Commonly found surnames among the plaintiffs and defendants include Abernathy, Bass, Britt, Browder, Brown, Buford, Carpenter, Chambliss (also spelled Chambless and Chamblis), Cheely, Claiborne, Clary, Clayton, Coleman, Daniel, Davis, Dromgoole, Drummond, Dugger (also spelled Duggar), Edmunds, Edwards, Field, Fisher, Floyd, Goodrich, Goodwyn, Green, Hall, Hardaway (also spelled Hardiway), Harris, Harrison, Harwell, Haskins, Hawthorn (also spelled Hawthorne), Heartwell, Hicks, Hill, House, Huff, Ingram, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Kelly, Lanier, Lewis, Lucy, MacLin (also spelled MacKlin), Mallory, Malone, Manson, Mason, Matthews, Meade, Meredith, Mitchell, Moore, Moseley (also spelled Mosely), Orgain, Parham, Pearson, Peebles, Pennington, Phipps, Powell, Price, Pritchett, Raney (also spelled Rainey), Rawlings, Rice, Robinson, Seward, Seymour (also spelled Seymore), Shell, Short, Smith, Stainback, Stith, Taylor, Temple, Thomas, Trotter, Tucker, Turnbull, Vaughan, Walker, Walton (also spelled Wallton), Wesson, White, Wilkins, Wilkinson, Williams, Wright, and Wyche.","Allison \u0026 Addison is involved in 9 suits between 1879 and 1919; the Camp Manufacturing Company is involved in 22 suits between 1905 and 1915; Manson \u0026 Shell Company (also called Manson \u0026 Shell) is involved in 20 suits between 1890 and 1914; the Methodist Episcopal Church South is involved in 10 suits between 1886 and 1910; and Peebles \u0026 Purdy Company (also Peebles \u0026 Purdy Company Inc. and Peebles \u0026 Purdy) is involved in 13 suits between 1909 and 1917.","Kezia, Flora, and Jenny Crook, formerly enslaved sisters, claimed to be the daughters of Joseph Crook, their former enslaver. They stated that they, along with Betty Crook, their mother, were emancipated by Crook in 1782 and that Crook married Betty after the death of his first wife. Kezia, Flora, and Jenny accused their mother, Crook’s white children, and Thomas Stewart, a free Black doctor who lived in Dinwiddie County, of conspiring to destroy the will and deny the plaintiffs their share of their father’s estate. Crook’s white children claimed that their father never emancipated Betty and her children, and, even if he had, Betty was never legally married to Crook since interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia. \n ","This suit involves a division of 68 people enslaved by William Rice prior to his death. Details noted about the enslaved people as part of the division include their names; familial relationships; marriages [which were not formally recognized by the state of Virginia until 1866]; and valuations.\n ","The bill and decrees associated with this suit are missing, so the cause of action unclear. However, the suit concerns the construction of a bridge over Meherrin Creek near Pennington’s Ford (Brunswick, Va.).  Affidavits, depositions, and accounts included in the suit provide details regarding work hours, injuries, and the skills of the 17 enslaved workers and two free Black men who worked on the bridge.\n ","Richard R. Brown alleged that Benjamin Taylor, John Taylor’s brother, helped John Taylor avoid the payment of a debt due Brown and others by falsely claiming over 20 people enslaved by the defendant. Brown claimed that John Taylor planned to move to Florida with the enslaved persons and he sought an injunction to prevent Taylor from removing the enslaved persons from the state.\n ","William H. Gholson was bequeathed two enslaved persons while a minor, during which time one was sold. One affidavit references Moses, an enslaved man, being sold “in order that he might go with his wife.”\n ","Elizabeth Pritchett, widow of James Pritchett, and several of James Pritchett's heirs sought the court's aid in dividing and distributing his estate. Pritchett asked the court to recognize her dower rights to 1/3 of the land owned by the decendent and to 1/3 of the people enslaved by the decedent in Alabama and Arkansas. The suit includes valuations of over 50 named enslaved people.     \n ","Edwin C. Drummond, the defendant, was a resident of Georgia. He was indebted to Henry Price, one of the plaintiffs, and others for unpaid tailoring and footwear bills from his time as a student at the University of Virginia. The plaintiffs sought to recover the debt through land Drummond owned in Brunswick County. Consult the  UncommonWealth blog  for a post about this chancery cause published on August 7, 2019.\n ","John H. Walker, the complainant, and Robert S. Hardaway, the defendant, were partners in a business involved in the trade of enslaved persons from 1819 to 1822. Two letters from Walker to Hardaway discuss cotton prices, the surplus of enslaved people in the Georgia market and the resulting adverse effect on prices, and Walker’s trip from Virginia to Georgia through the Carolinas with several enslaved people.\n ","Lucy L. Birthright, the mother of Mary A. L. Ogburn, sought to pay her daughter's expenses at a school for the “deaf and dumb” through the sale of several persons enslaved by Birthright as her dower property.\n ","Nancy Johnson claimed that Ben, an enslaved man, was a “notorious runaway” and thief “whose conduct has so alarmed and inflamed the public against him that he is liable to be in constant danger of being put to death.” She hoped to sell him and invest the proceeds in another enslaved person.\n ","This suit involves the sale of Nathan, an enslaved man. It also includes Lightfoot’s memorandum book, which lists several enslaved people sold on his trips from Virginia to Alabama in the 1830s and 1840s.\n ","Jesse and Allen, two enslaved men, drowned in the Meherrin River after being ordered by Benjamin Hall to gather wheat growing along the edge of the water. Hall attempted to save Jesse and Allen by sending other enslaved persons to assist them and later claimed that he was unaware of Jesse and Allen’s inability to swim. John F. E. Lewis, Hall’s employer, had borrowed Jesse and Allen from the estate of Gray Dunn, of which he was the executor. Lewis sought to deny responsibility for the drowning of Jesse and Allen and clear himself and Hall of any liability or monetary responsibility.\n ","Lucretia Atkins asked that the court allow her to transport Mortimore, a man enslaved by Atkins, to Richmond and sell him there, believing there was “danger of his being destroyed” in Brunswick County. She claimed that he broke into a storehouse and accused several white persons of complicity, after which they threatened to kill him.\n ","William Samford desired that enslaved persons belonging to his estate be emancipated. He instructed his executor and his two oldest sons to petition the legislature of Virginia to permit the enslaved persons to remain in the county as long they conducted themselves in an orderly and industrious manner. Some of the enslaved persons to be emancipated included Catherine Collier, Lucy Ann, Liberia Ann, Freeman White, and John Arthur. See also 1857-031: Exr. of William Samford vs. Susan J. Samford, etc., and 1857-038: Exr. of William Samford vs. Alexander Eugene Mason Samford, etc.\n ","In this suit, deponents discuss the arrival of Union soldiers sent to Brunswick County and the establishment of a tribunal by the Freedmen’s Bureau, allegedly to protect the county’s Black inhabitants. 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Arranged chronologically.\n","Arrangement of documents within each folder are generally as follows: Bill, Answer, and Final Decree (if found.)","Context for Record Type:  Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are \"administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law.\" A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case; however, the judge is basing the decision on findings compiled and documented by Commissioners. Chancery causes are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history. Chancery causes document the lived experiences of free and enslaved individuals; women; children; people living with physical disabilities or mental health struggles; people living in poverty; defunct institutions and corporate entities; or those that may not have otherwise left traditional written histories.\n","Locality History:  Brunswick County was named for the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, one of the German possessions of King George I. It was formed by statute in 1720 from Prince George County and on 31 October 1723 the boundaries of the county were ordered to be laid out. However, because of the sparse population, the county court first met in June 1732. Brunswick County was enlarged by the addition of parts of Surry and Isle of Wight counties in 1733. The county seat is Lawrenceville.\n","Lost Locality Note:  Most loose records prior to 1781 are missing. Pre-1781 volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist. \n","Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1781-1942, were processed in multiple chunks. Chancery causes that ended between 1781 and 1928 were processed by L. Jones and completed in 1999; additional chancery causes ending between 1846 and 1928 were processed by R. Smith and P. Connelly and completed in 2000. Chancery Causes 1781-1869 were reprocessed by T. Harter and S. Bagley and completed in 2022.","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1781-1869 were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program in 2023, with additional funds provided by the Library of Virginia Foundation and the Jamestowne Society.","Encoded by S. Nerney: June 2007; updated by C. Collins: February 2024.","Additional Brunswick County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult  A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.","Brunswick County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Brunswick County Records may be found in the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available the Library of Virginia website.","Efforts have been taken to identify business records related to chancery suits as some business records were used as evidence in court proceedings. For a list of business records for Brunswick County, see also:   “A Guide to the Brunswick County (Va.) Business Records, 1850-1924”","Brunswick County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1781-1942, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics.\n","Chancery causes that ended before 1865, as well as some that ended afterwards, may contain information related to enslaved Black and multiracial individuals. However, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. Under the system of chattel slavery, laws permitted enslavers to treat enslaved people as personal possessions in the same manner as livestock, farm equipment, or household items.\n","Chancery Causes 1781-1869 are primarily comprised of debt suits, estate suits, and contract suits. The estate suits sometimes reference enslaved persons and involve the division and distribution of property and women suing for dower rights. The contract suits concern disputes surrounding grist mills, carpentry businesses, and grocery stores, among other things, while the debt suits involve both businesses and private citizens.","Commonly found surnames among the plaintiffs and defendants include Abernathy, Bass, Britt, Browder, Brown, Buford, Carpenter, Chambliss (also spelled Chambless and Chamblis), Cheely, Claiborne, Clary, Clayton, Coleman, Daniel, Davis, Dromgoole, Drummond, Dugger (also spelled Duggar), Edmunds, Edwards, Field, Fisher, Floyd, Goodrich, Goodwyn, Green, Hall, Hardaway (also spelled Hardiway), Harris, Harrison, Harwell, Haskins, Hawthorn (also spelled Hawthorne), Heartwell, Hicks, Hill, House, Huff, Ingram, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Kelly, Lanier, Lewis, Lucy, MacLin (also spelled MacKlin), Mallory, Malone, Manson, Mason, Matthews, Meade, Meredith, Mitchell, Moore, Moseley (also spelled Mosely), Orgain, Parham, Pearson, Peebles, Pennington, Phipps, Powell, Price, Pritchett, Raney (also spelled Rainey), Rawlings, Rice, Robinson, Seward, Seymour (also spelled Seymore), Shell, Short, Smith, Stainback, Stith, Taylor, Temple, Thomas, Trotter, Tucker, Turnbull, Vaughan, Walker, Walton (also spelled Wallton), Wesson, White, Wilkins, Wilkinson, Williams, Wright, and Wyche.","Allison \u0026 Addison is involved in 9 suits between 1879 and 1919; the Camp Manufacturing Company is involved in 22 suits between 1905 and 1915; Manson \u0026 Shell Company (also called Manson \u0026 Shell) is involved in 20 suits between 1890 and 1914; the Methodist Episcopal Church South is involved in 10 suits between 1886 and 1910; and Peebles \u0026 Purdy Company (also Peebles \u0026 Purdy Company Inc. and Peebles \u0026 Purdy) is involved in 13 suits between 1909 and 1917.","Kezia, Flora, and Jenny Crook, formerly enslaved sisters, claimed to be the daughters of Joseph Crook, their former enslaver. They stated that they, along with Betty Crook, their mother, were emancipated by Crook in 1782 and that Crook married Betty after the death of his first wife. Kezia, Flora, and Jenny accused their mother, Crook’s white children, and Thomas Stewart, a free Black doctor who lived in Dinwiddie County, of conspiring to destroy the will and deny the plaintiffs their share of their father’s estate. Crook’s white children claimed that their father never emancipated Betty and her children, and, even if he had, Betty was never legally married to Crook since interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia. \n ","This suit involves a division of 68 people enslaved by William Rice prior to his death. Details noted about the enslaved people as part of the division include their names; familial relationships; marriages [which were not formally recognized by the state of Virginia until 1866]; and valuations.\n ","The bill and decrees associated with this suit are missing, so the cause of action unclear. However, the suit concerns the construction of a bridge over Meherrin Creek near Pennington’s Ford (Brunswick, Va.).  Affidavits, depositions, and accounts included in the suit provide details regarding work hours, injuries, and the skills of the 17 enslaved workers and two free Black men who worked on the bridge.\n ","Richard R. Brown alleged that Benjamin Taylor, John Taylor’s brother, helped John Taylor avoid the payment of a debt due Brown and others by falsely claiming over 20 people enslaved by the defendant. Brown claimed that John Taylor planned to move to Florida with the enslaved persons and he sought an injunction to prevent Taylor from removing the enslaved persons from the state.\n ","William H. Gholson was bequeathed two enslaved persons while a minor, during which time one was sold. One affidavit references Moses, an enslaved man, being sold “in order that he might go with his wife.”\n ","Elizabeth Pritchett, widow of James Pritchett, and several of James Pritchett's heirs sought the court's aid in dividing and distributing his estate. Pritchett asked the court to recognize her dower rights to 1/3 of the land owned by the decendent and to 1/3 of the people enslaved by the decedent in Alabama and Arkansas. The suit includes valuations of over 50 named enslaved people.     \n ","Edwin C. Drummond, the defendant, was a resident of Georgia. He was indebted to Henry Price, one of the plaintiffs, and others for unpaid tailoring and footwear bills from his time as a student at the University of Virginia. The plaintiffs sought to recover the debt through land Drummond owned in Brunswick County. Consult the  UncommonWealth blog  for a post about this chancery cause published on August 7, 2019.\n ","John H. Walker, the complainant, and Robert S. Hardaway, the defendant, were partners in a business involved in the trade of enslaved persons from 1819 to 1822. Two letters from Walker to Hardaway discuss cotton prices, the surplus of enslaved people in the Georgia market and the resulting adverse effect on prices, and Walker’s trip from Virginia to Georgia through the Carolinas with several enslaved people.\n ","Lucy L. Birthright, the mother of Mary A. L. 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John F. E. Lewis, Hall’s employer, had borrowed Jesse and Allen from the estate of Gray Dunn, of which he was the executor. Lewis sought to deny responsibility for the drowning of Jesse and Allen and clear himself and Hall of any liability or monetary responsibility.\n ","Lucretia Atkins asked that the court allow her to transport Mortimore, a man enslaved by Atkins, to Richmond and sell him there, believing there was “danger of his being destroyed” in Brunswick County. She claimed that he broke into a storehouse and accused several white persons of complicity, after which they threatened to kill him.\n ","William Samford desired that enslaved persons belonging to his estate be emancipated. He instructed his executor and his two oldest sons to petition the legislature of Virginia to permit the enslaved persons to remain in the county as long they conducted themselves in an orderly and industrious manner. 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They stated that they, along with Betty Crook, their mother, were emancipated by Crook in 1782 and that Crook married Betty after the death of his first wife. Kezia, Flora, and Jenny accused their mother, Crook’s white children, and Thomas Stewart, a free Black doctor who lived in Dinwiddie County, of conspiring to destroy the will and deny the plaintiffs their share of their father’s estate. Crook’s white children claimed that their father never emancipated Betty and her children, and, even if he had, Betty was never legally married to Crook since interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia. \n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis suit involves a division of 68 people enslaved by William Rice prior to his death. 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The ways in which local authorities enacted legal measures against or on behalf of enslaved and free Black and Multiracial people varied from locality to locality; therefore, records were not necessarily standardized or filed and retained in a consistent manner. This collection is topical and a means by which to compile miscellaneous documents related to free and enslaved people that are not established local government record types.\n","See:  the  Virginia Untold Record Types  on the Library of Virginia website for additional context concerning \"Free Negro\" Tax Records and Requisitions for Public Use.","Locality History:  Brunswick County was named for the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, one of the German possessions of King George I. It was formed by statute in 1720 from Prince George County and on 31 October 1723 the boundaries of the county were ordered to be laid out, but, because of the sparse population, the county court first met in June 1732. Brunswick County was enlarged by the addition of parts of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties in 1733. The county seat is Lawrenceville.","Lost Locality Note:  Most loose records prior to 1781 are missing. Pre-1781 volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist.","Starting in 2023, Library of Virginia archival staff in partnership with the Virginia Untold Project Manager began efforts to describe records related to free and enslaved Black and Multiracial people in a manner that improved the historical context of the records. In doing so, in some cases material once described within the \"Free and Enslaved\" record group for a locality may no longer be described within this record. When this has occurred, please see the Processing Information and Related Materials section for records that have been described separately.","\"Free Negro\" registrations and certificates were removed from this record in January 2025 and are now described in Brunswick County (Va.) 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Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, \n1803-1864","3 volumes; 4 folders; 1 photostatic negative volume; 3 microfilm reels","Brunswick County (Va.) Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, are digitized and available through  Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection  on the Library of Virginia website. Please use digital images.\n","The Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1820, is available on microfilm, Brunswick County (Va.) Reel No. 126. \n","The Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1820-1850, is available on microfilm, Brunswick County (Va.) Reel No. 134.","The Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, is available on microfilm, Brunswick County (Va.) Reel No. 95.","The Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, is available as a photostatic negative.","This collection is arranged\n Series I: Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, arranged loosely by record type then chronologically.","Arranged loosely by record type then chronologically \n","Context for Record Type:","\"Free Negro\" Registers","In 1793, the Virginia General Assembly specified that \"free Negroes or mulattoes\" were required to be registered and numbered in a book to be kept by the town clerk, which shall specify \"age, name, colour, and stature, by whom, and in what court the said negro or mulatto was emancipated; or that such negro or mulatto was born free.\" The process was extended to counties in 1803. Although some clerks were already recording such features, an 1834 Act of Assembly made it a uniform requirement to record identifying marks and scars and the instrument of emancipation, whether by deed or will. This bound register often coincided with a loose certificate containing largely the same identifying information. Both the registration system and the process of renewal was enforced differently in the various Virginia localities. Thus, the information found in these registers may differ from year to year and across localities. \n","The register books resulting from the administration of the 1793 and 1803 Act of Assembly are evidence of Virginia legislators' reaction to a quickly growing free Black and Multiracial population in Virginia in the post Revolutionary War period. Acts such as these allowed white officials to police the activities and movement of free Black community members throughout the state thereby restricting their autonomy.\n","\"Free Negro\" Registrations","In 1793, the Virginia General Assembly specified that \"free Negroes or mulattoes\" were required to \"be registered and numbered in a book to be kept by the town clerk, which shall specify age, name, color, status and by whom, and in what court emancipated.\" These entries often coincided with the creation of a loose certificate containing largely the same identifying information.","Documents in this record group differ from the bound volumes referred to as \"registers.\" These registration records typically appear in the form of certificates or handwritten statements recording the free status of a Black or Multiracial person. They can include the free person's name, sometimes age, a brief physical description, and the circumstances of the person's freedom or emancipation, parents, former enslaver, place or date of emancipation. There are also affidavits that were given by individuals affirming a free person's status, as well as written descriptions of free people. In some cases, a person would not have a registration to submit to the court. Instead, they produced some other form of identification proving their free status, for example, a deed of emancipation, a will, an apprenticeship indenture, or an affidavit of someone testifying to their character and status.","Locality History:  Brunswick County was named for the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, one of the German possessions of King George I. It was formed by statute in 1720 from Prince George County and on 31 October 1723 the boundaries of the county were ordered to be laid out, but, because of the sparse population, the county court first met in June 1732. Brunswick County was enlarged by the addition of parts of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties in 1733. The county seat is Lawrenceville.","Lost Locality Note:  Most loose records prior to 1781 are missing. Pre-1781 volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist.","The Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, was transferred to the Library of Virginia from the Circuit Court of Brunswick County in 2022 under accession number 53886 for digitization. It was returned to the locality in 2023 by request of the clerk of the Circuit Court. \n","The original registers are retained in the locality. Contact the clerk of the Circuit Court for access. Brunswick County Circuit Court, 216 North Main Street, Lawrenceville, VA 23868-0160. \n","\"Free Negro\" registrations and certificates, 1823-1850, were originally described as part of the Brunswick County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1851-1862, but were removed to the present Brunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, record to enhance the context between record types in January 2025. \n","Brunswick County (Va.) Reel Nos. 95, 126, and 134 were originally described as Brunswick County (Va.) Registers of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1850, but were removed to the present Brunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, record to enhance the context between record types in January 2025.","The microfilm copies of the registers were generated by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services in 1974.","Digital images of the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1820, and the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1820-1850, were transferred to the Library of Virginia in 2022 for inclusion in Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection. Digital images of the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, were produced by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services around 2022.","These records were processed and indexed by L. Neuroth and LVA staff for the purposes of digitizing them for the digital project Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative around 2022 and at an unknown date.","Encoded by S. Nerney: March 2006; updated by C. Collins: January 2025.","See also:  Brunswick County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1851-1862","Records related to free and enslaved people of Brunswick County (Va.) and other localities are available through the  Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection  on the Library of Virginia website.","Additional Brunswick County (Va.) Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult  ”A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.”","Brunswick County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Brunswick County records may be found in the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available on the Library of Virginia website.","Brunswick County (Va.) Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, consist of three “Free Negro” registers, 1803-1864, and four folders of free registrations and certificates, 1823-1850, undated.\n","Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1820, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1803 to 1820. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. The register does not include index or page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, place of birth, or the person's trade or occupation.","The volume also contains the Brunswick County (Va.) Processioners' Returns, 1795-1816, and the Brunswick County (Va.) Register of Dower Slaves, 1805-1815. Brunswick County (Va.) Processioners' Returns, 1795-1816, include entries containing the area processioned with geographical landmarks, roads, property lines noted, the names of the persons present, the date(s) when the processioning occurred, the names of the processioners, and the date that the return was recorded in the county court. Brunswick County (Va.) Register of Dower Slaves, 1805-1815, is comprised of seven registrations listing the enslaved people inherited as a result of dower rights or the rights of a widow in her husband's estate. The entries include the name of the enslaver, the name of the person owning the dower right, sometimes the name of the deceased husband, and the name(s) and age(s) of the enslaved people.","Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1820-1850, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1820-1850. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. The register does not include an index or page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, place of birth, or their trade or occupation.\n","Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1850-1864. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. There is no index, but the register includes page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, or place of birth. The volume also contains Brunswick County (Va.) Order Book 39, 1864-1868, which records all matters brought before the court when it was in session. It provides synopses of cases in a neater, more organized form. A wide variety of information is recorded including deeds, chancery causes, judgments, and records of legal disputes heard before the county court.","Registrations and certificates of “free negroes and mulattoes,\" 1823-1850, undated, typically record the free person’s name, age, a brief physical description, and the circumstances of the person’s freedom or emancipation. If born free, a reference is sometimes made to the parents. If emancipated, the emancipating enslaver, place and date of emancipation, and prior registration are usually recorded. There may also be affidavits and certificates that were given by individuals affirming a free person’s status, as well as written descriptions of free persons. 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Both the registration system and the process of renewal was enforced differently in the various Virginia localities. Thus, the information found in these registers may differ from year to year and across localities. \n","The register books resulting from the administration of the 1793 and 1803 Act of Assembly are evidence of Virginia legislators' reaction to a quickly growing free Black and Multiracial population in Virginia in the post Revolutionary War period. Acts such as these allowed white officials to police the activities and movement of free Black community members throughout the state thereby restricting their autonomy.\n","\"Free Negro\" Registrations","In 1793, the Virginia General Assembly specified that \"free Negroes or mulattoes\" were required to \"be registered and numbered in a book to be kept by the town clerk, which shall specify age, name, color, status and by whom, and in what court emancipated.\" These entries often coincided with the creation of a loose certificate containing largely the same identifying information.","Documents in this record group differ from the bound volumes referred to as \"registers.\" These registration records typically appear in the form of certificates or handwritten statements recording the free status of a Black or Multiracial person. They can include the free person's name, sometimes age, a brief physical description, and the circumstances of the person's freedom or emancipation, parents, former enslaver, place or date of emancipation. There are also affidavits that were given by individuals affirming a free person's status, as well as written descriptions of free people. In some cases, a person would not have a registration to submit to the court. Instead, they produced some other form of identification proving their free status, for example, a deed of emancipation, a will, an apprenticeship indenture, or an affidavit of someone testifying to their character and status.","Locality History:  Brunswick County was named for the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, one of the German possessions of King George I. It was formed by statute in 1720 from Prince George County and on 31 October 1723 the boundaries of the county were ordered to be laid out, but, because of the sparse population, the county court first met in June 1732. Brunswick County was enlarged by the addition of parts of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties in 1733. The county seat is Lawrenceville.","Lost Locality Note:  Most loose records prior to 1781 are missing. Pre-1781 volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, was transferred to the Library of Virginia from the Circuit Court of Brunswick County in 2022 under accession number 53886 for digitization. It was returned to the locality in 2023 by request of the clerk of the Circuit Court. \n\u003c/p\u003e"],"custodhist_heading_ssm":["Custodial History\n"],"custodhist_tesim":["The Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, was transferred to the Library of Virginia from the Circuit Court of Brunswick County in 2022 under accession number 53886 for digitization. It was returned to the locality in 2023 by request of the clerk of the Circuit Court. \n"],"originalsloc_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe original registers are retained in the locality. Contact the clerk of the Circuit Court for access. Brunswick County Circuit Court, 216 North Main Street, Lawrenceville, VA 23868-0160. \n\u003c/p\u003e"],"originalsloc_heading_ssm":["Location of Originals\n"],"originalsloc_tesim":["The original registers are retained in the locality. Contact the clerk of the Circuit Court for access. Brunswick County Circuit Court, 216 North Main Street, Lawrenceville, VA 23868-0160. \n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864. Local government records collection, Brunswick County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Brunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864. Local government records collection, Brunswick County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\"Free Negro\" registrations and certificates, 1823-1850, were originally described as part of the Brunswick County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1851-1862, but were removed to the present Brunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, record to enhance the context between record types in January 2025. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Reel Nos. 95, 126, and 134 were originally described as Brunswick County (Va.) Registers of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1850, but were removed to the present Brunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, record to enhance the context between record types in January 2025.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe microfilm copies of the registers were generated by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services in 1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDigital images of the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1820, and the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1820-1850, were transferred to the Library of Virginia in 2022 for inclusion in Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection. 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Reel Nos. 95, 126, and 134 were originally described as Brunswick County (Va.) Registers of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1850, but were removed to the present Brunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, record to enhance the context between record types in January 2025.","The microfilm copies of the registers were generated by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services in 1974.","Digital images of the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1820, and the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1820-1850, were transferred to the Library of Virginia in 2022 for inclusion in Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection. Digital images of the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, were produced by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services around 2022.","These records were processed and indexed by L. Neuroth and LVA staff for the purposes of digitizing them for the digital project Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative around 2022 and at an unknown date.","Encoded by S. Nerney: March 2006; updated by C. Collins: January 2025."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee also: \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/lva/vi01629.html\"\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1851-1862\u003c/extref\u003e \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecords related to free and enslaved people of Brunswick County (Va.) and other localities are available through the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/aan\"\u003eVirginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection\u003c/extref\u003e on the Library of Virginia website.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional Brunswick County (Va.) Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/local/\"\u003e”A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.”\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Brunswick County records may be found in the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/lost\"\u003eLost Records Localities Digital Collection\u003c/extref\u003e available on the Library of Virginia website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["See also:  Brunswick County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1851-1862","Records related to free and enslaved people of Brunswick County (Va.) and other localities are available through the  Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection  on the Library of Virginia website.","Additional Brunswick County (Va.) Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult  ”A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.”","Brunswick County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Brunswick County records may be found in the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available on the Library of Virginia website."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, consist of three “Free Negro” registers, 1803-1864, and four folders of free registrations and certificates, 1823-1850, undated.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1820, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1803 to 1820. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. The register does not include index or page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, place of birth, or the person's trade or occupation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe volume also contains the Brunswick County (Va.) Processioners' Returns, 1795-1816, and the Brunswick County (Va.) Register of Dower Slaves, 1805-1815. Brunswick County (Va.) Processioners' Returns, 1795-1816, include entries containing the area processioned with geographical landmarks, roads, property lines noted, the names of the persons present, the date(s) when the processioning occurred, the names of the processioners, and the date that the return was recorded in the county court. Brunswick County (Va.) Register of Dower Slaves, 1805-1815, is comprised of seven registrations listing the enslaved people inherited as a result of dower rights or the rights of a widow in her husband's estate. The entries include the name of the enslaver, the name of the person owning the dower right, sometimes the name of the deceased husband, and the name(s) and age(s) of the enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1820-1850, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1820-1850. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. The register does not include an index or page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, place of birth, or their trade or occupation.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1850-1864. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. There is no index, but the register includes page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, or place of birth. The volume also contains Brunswick County (Va.) Order Book 39, 1864-1868, which records all matters brought before the court when it was in session. It provides synopses of cases in a neater, more organized form. 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Processioners' Returns, 1795-1816, include entries containing the area processioned with geographical landmarks, roads, property lines noted, the names of the persons present, the date(s) when the processioning occurred, the names of the processioners, and the date that the return was recorded in the county court. Brunswick County (Va.) Register of Dower Slaves, 1805-1815, is comprised of seven registrations listing the enslaved people inherited as a result of dower rights or the rights of a widow in her husband's estate. The entries include the name of the enslaver, the name of the person owning the dower right, sometimes the name of the deceased husband, and the name(s) and age(s) of the enslaved people.","Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1820-1850, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1820-1850. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. The register does not include an index or page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, place of birth, or their trade or occupation.\n","Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1850-1864. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. There is no index, but the register includes page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, or place of birth. The volume also contains Brunswick County (Va.) Order Book 39, 1864-1868, which records all matters brought before the court when it was in session. It provides synopses of cases in a neater, more organized form. A wide variety of information is recorded including deeds, chancery causes, judgments, and records of legal disputes heard before the county court.","Registrations and certificates of “free negroes and mulattoes,\" 1823-1850, undated, typically record the free person’s name, age, a brief physical description, and the circumstances of the person’s freedom or emancipation. If born free, a reference is sometimes made to the parents. If emancipated, the emancipating enslaver, place and date of emancipation, and prior registration are usually recorded. There may also be affidavits and certificates that were given by individuals affirming a free person’s status, as well as written descriptions of free persons. 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Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, is available on microfilm, Brunswick County (Va.) Reel No. 95.","The Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, is available as a photostatic negative.","This collection is arranged\n Series I: Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, arranged loosely by record type then chronologically.","Arranged loosely by record type then chronologically \n","Context for Record Type:","\"Free Negro\" Registers","In 1793, the Virginia General Assembly specified that \"free Negroes or mulattoes\" were required to be registered and numbered in a book to be kept by the town clerk, which shall specify \"age, name, colour, and stature, by whom, and in what court the said negro or mulatto was emancipated; or that such negro or mulatto was born free.\" The process was extended to counties in 1803. Although some clerks were already recording such features, an 1834 Act of Assembly made it a uniform requirement to record identifying marks and scars and the instrument of emancipation, whether by deed or will. This bound register often coincided with a loose certificate containing largely the same identifying information. Both the registration system and the process of renewal was enforced differently in the various Virginia localities. Thus, the information found in these registers may differ from year to year and across localities. \n","The register books resulting from the administration of the 1793 and 1803 Act of Assembly are evidence of Virginia legislators' reaction to a quickly growing free Black and Multiracial population in Virginia in the post Revolutionary War period. Acts such as these allowed white officials to police the activities and movement of free Black community members throughout the state thereby restricting their autonomy.\n","\"Free Negro\" Registrations","In 1793, the Virginia General Assembly specified that \"free Negroes or mulattoes\" were required to \"be registered and numbered in a book to be kept by the town clerk, which shall specify age, name, color, status and by whom, and in what court emancipated.\" These entries often coincided with the creation of a loose certificate containing largely the same identifying information.","Documents in this record group differ from the bound volumes referred to as \"registers.\" These registration records typically appear in the form of certificates or handwritten statements recording the free status of a Black or Multiracial person. They can include the free person's name, sometimes age, a brief physical description, and the circumstances of the person's freedom or emancipation, parents, former enslaver, place or date of emancipation. There are also affidavits that were given by individuals affirming a free person's status, as well as written descriptions of free people. In some cases, a person would not have a registration to submit to the court. Instead, they produced some other form of identification proving their free status, for example, a deed of emancipation, a will, an apprenticeship indenture, or an affidavit of someone testifying to their character and status.","Locality History:  Brunswick County was named for the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, one of the German possessions of King George I. It was formed by statute in 1720 from Prince George County and on 31 October 1723 the boundaries of the county were ordered to be laid out, but, because of the sparse population, the county court first met in June 1732. Brunswick County was enlarged by the addition of parts of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties in 1733. The county seat is Lawrenceville.","Lost Locality Note:  Most loose records prior to 1781 are missing. Pre-1781 volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist.","The Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, was transferred to the Library of Virginia from the Circuit Court of Brunswick County in 2022 under accession number 53886 for digitization. It was returned to the locality in 2023 by request of the clerk of the Circuit Court. \n","The original registers are retained in the locality. Contact the clerk of the Circuit Court for access. Brunswick County Circuit Court, 216 North Main Street, Lawrenceville, VA 23868-0160. \n","\"Free Negro\" registrations and certificates, 1823-1850, were originally described as part of the Brunswick County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1851-1862, but were removed to the present Brunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, record to enhance the context between record types in January 2025. \n","Brunswick County (Va.) Reel Nos. 95, 126, and 134 were originally described as Brunswick County (Va.) Registers of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1850, but were removed to the present Brunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, record to enhance the context between record types in January 2025.","The microfilm copies of the registers were generated by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services in 1974.","Digital images of the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1820, and the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1820-1850, were transferred to the Library of Virginia in 2022 for inclusion in Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection. Digital images of the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, were produced by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services around 2022.","These records were processed and indexed by L. Neuroth and LVA staff for the purposes of digitizing them for the digital project Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative around 2022 and at an unknown date.","Encoded by S. Nerney: March 2006; updated by C. Collins: January 2025.","See also:  Brunswick County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1851-1862","Records related to free and enslaved people of Brunswick County (Va.) and other localities are available through the  Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection  on the Library of Virginia website.","Additional Brunswick County (Va.) Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult  ”A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.”","Brunswick County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Brunswick County records may be found in the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available on the Library of Virginia website.","Brunswick County (Va.) Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, consist of three “Free Negro” registers, 1803-1864, and four folders of free registrations and certificates, 1823-1850, undated.\n","Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1820, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1803 to 1820. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. The register does not include index or page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, place of birth, or the person's trade or occupation.","The volume also contains the Brunswick County (Va.) Processioners' Returns, 1795-1816, and the Brunswick County (Va.) Register of Dower Slaves, 1805-1815. Brunswick County (Va.) Processioners' Returns, 1795-1816, include entries containing the area processioned with geographical landmarks, roads, property lines noted, the names of the persons present, the date(s) when the processioning occurred, the names of the processioners, and the date that the return was recorded in the county court. Brunswick County (Va.) Register of Dower Slaves, 1805-1815, is comprised of seven registrations listing the enslaved people inherited as a result of dower rights or the rights of a widow in her husband's estate. The entries include the name of the enslaver, the name of the person owning the dower right, sometimes the name of the deceased husband, and the name(s) and age(s) of the enslaved people.","Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1820-1850, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1820-1850. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. The register does not include an index or page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, place of birth, or their trade or occupation.\n","Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1850-1864. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. There is no index, but the register includes page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, or place of birth. The volume also contains Brunswick County (Va.) 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Digital images of the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, were produced by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services around 2022 and accessioned under accession number 54085.","The microfilm copies of the registers were generated by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services in 1974."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["3 volumes; 4 folders; 1 photostatic negative volume; 3 microfilm reels"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, are digitized and available through \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/aan\"\u003eVirginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection\u003c/extref\u003e on the Library of Virginia website. Please use digital images.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions\n"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Brunswick County (Va.) 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Although some clerks were already recording such features, an 1834 Act of Assembly made it a uniform requirement to record identifying marks and scars and the instrument of emancipation, whether by deed or will. This bound register often coincided with a loose certificate containing largely the same identifying information. Both the registration system and the process of renewal was enforced differently in the various Virginia localities. Thus, the information found in these registers may differ from year to year and across localities. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe register books resulting from the administration of the 1793 and 1803 Act of Assembly are evidence of Virginia legislators' reaction to a quickly growing free Black and Multiracial population in Virginia in the post Revolutionary War period. 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Both the registration system and the process of renewal was enforced differently in the various Virginia localities. Thus, the information found in these registers may differ from year to year and across localities. \n","The register books resulting from the administration of the 1793 and 1803 Act of Assembly are evidence of Virginia legislators' reaction to a quickly growing free Black and Multiracial population in Virginia in the post Revolutionary War period. Acts such as these allowed white officials to police the activities and movement of free Black community members throughout the state thereby restricting their autonomy.\n","\"Free Negro\" Registrations","In 1793, the Virginia General Assembly specified that \"free Negroes or mulattoes\" were required to \"be registered and numbered in a book to be kept by the town clerk, which shall specify age, name, color, status and by whom, and in what court emancipated.\" These entries often coincided with the creation of a loose certificate containing largely the same identifying information.","Documents in this record group differ from the bound volumes referred to as \"registers.\" These registration records typically appear in the form of certificates or handwritten statements recording the free status of a Black or Multiracial person. They can include the free person's name, sometimes age, a brief physical description, and the circumstances of the person's freedom or emancipation, parents, former enslaver, place or date of emancipation. There are also affidavits that were given by individuals affirming a free person's status, as well as written descriptions of free people. In some cases, a person would not have a registration to submit to the court. Instead, they produced some other form of identification proving their free status, for example, a deed of emancipation, a will, an apprenticeship indenture, or an affidavit of someone testifying to their character and status.","Locality History:  Brunswick County was named for the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, one of the German possessions of King George I. It was formed by statute in 1720 from Prince George County and on 31 October 1723 the boundaries of the county were ordered to be laid out, but, because of the sparse population, the county court first met in June 1732. Brunswick County was enlarged by the addition of parts of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties in 1733. The county seat is Lawrenceville.","Lost Locality Note:  Most loose records prior to 1781 are missing. Pre-1781 volumes that record deeds, court orders, and wills exist."],"custodhist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, was transferred to the Library of Virginia from the Circuit Court of Brunswick County in 2022 under accession number 53886 for digitization. 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Brunswick County Circuit Court, 216 North Main Street, Lawrenceville, VA 23868-0160. \n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864. Local government records collection, Brunswick County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Brunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864. Local government records collection, Brunswick County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.\n"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\"Free Negro\" registrations and certificates, 1823-1850, were originally described as part of the Brunswick County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1851-1862, but were removed to the present Brunswick County (Va.) 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Reel Nos. 95, 126, and 134 were originally described as Brunswick County (Va.) Registers of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1850, but were removed to the present Brunswick County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, record to enhance the context between record types in January 2025.","The microfilm copies of the registers were generated by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services in 1974.","Digital images of the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1820, and the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1820-1850, were transferred to the Library of Virginia in 2022 for inclusion in Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection. Digital images of the Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, were produced by the Library of Virginia Imaging Services around 2022.","These records were processed and indexed by L. 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Consult \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/local/\"\u003e”A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.”\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Brunswick County records may be found in the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/lost\"\u003eLost Records Localities Digital Collection\u003c/extref\u003e available on the Library of Virginia website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["See also:  Brunswick County (Va.) Free and Enslaved Records, 1851-1862","Records related to free and enslaved people of Brunswick County (Va.) and other localities are available through the  Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative Digital Collection  on the Library of Virginia website.","Additional Brunswick County (Va.) Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult  ”A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.”","Brunswick County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Brunswick County records may be found in the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available on the Library of Virginia website."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Records related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1864, consist of three “Free Negro” registers, 1803-1864, and four folders of free registrations and certificates, 1823-1850, undated.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1803-1820, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1803 to 1820. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. The register does not include index or page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, place of birth, or the person's trade or occupation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe volume also contains the Brunswick County (Va.) Processioners' Returns, 1795-1816, and the Brunswick County (Va.) Register of Dower Slaves, 1805-1815. Brunswick County (Va.) Processioners' Returns, 1795-1816, include entries containing the area processioned with geographical landmarks, roads, property lines noted, the names of the persons present, the date(s) when the processioning occurred, the names of the processioners, and the date that the return was recorded in the county court. Brunswick County (Va.) Register of Dower Slaves, 1805-1815, is comprised of seven registrations listing the enslaved people inherited as a result of dower rights or the rights of a widow in her husband's estate. 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The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. The register does not include an index or page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, place of birth, or their trade or occupation.\n","Brunswick County (Va.) Register of “Free Negroes,” 1850-1864, records the registration of free Black and Multiracial people of Black descent in Brunswick County and covers the years 1850-1864. The clerk recorded name, age, height, complexion, marks and scars, and in what court the person was emancipated or if the person was born free. There is no index, but the register includes page numbers. In some instances, the clerk recorded information not required by law such as the name of the former enslaver, previous place of registration, or place of birth. The volume also contains Brunswick County (Va.) Order Book 39, 1864-1868, which records all matters brought before the court when it was in session. It provides synopses of cases in a neater, more organized form. A wide variety of information is recorded including deeds, chancery causes, judgments, and records of legal disputes heard before the county court.","Registrations and certificates of “free negroes and mulattoes,\" 1823-1850, undated, typically record the free person’s name, age, a brief physical description, and the circumstances of the person’s freedom or emancipation. If born free, a reference is sometimes made to the parents. If emancipated, the emancipating enslaver, place and date of emancipation, and prior registration are usually recorded. There may also be affidavits and certificates that were given by individuals affirming a free person’s status, as well as written descriptions of free persons. 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