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See Virginia Acts of Assembly, 1866-1867, Chapter 18, An act to\namend and re-enact the 14th section of chapter 108 of the Code of Virginia for 1860, in regard to registers of marriage; and to legalize the marriages of colored persons now cohabiting as husband and wife.\n","The federal Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands directed the Assistant Superintendents of the states to order the county clerks to make a registry of such cohabiting couples. See Circular No. 11,\ndated 19 March 1866, in Orders, Circulars, Circular Letters, and Letters of Instruction, vol. 2 (1866). Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of\nVirginia, 1865-1869. Miscellaneous reel 3880, Library of Virginia. National Archives microfilm M1048 (reel 41), Record Group 105.\n","Additional Prince Edward County Marriage Records and Vital Statistics can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. 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Register of Children of Colored Persons in Buckingham County, State of Virginia, whose Parents had ceased to cohabit on 27th February, 1866, which the Father recognizes to be his. This register lists the name of the child, age, place of birth, residence, last owner, residence of the last owner, residence of father, his age and last owner, residence of last owner of father, name of mother, her age, her residence if alive or noted if dead, last owner of mother, residence of last owner of mother, and the signature of the father. \u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi01380#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vi_vi01380","ead_ssi":"vi_vi01380","_root_":"vi_vi01380","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi01380","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi01380.xml","title_ssm":["Buckingham County (Va.) 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