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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.\n","Locality History:  Accomack County was named for the Accomac Indians, who lived on the Eastern Shore at the time of the first English settlement in Virginia. The word means \"on-the-other-side-of-water place\" or \"across the water.\" It was one of the original eight shires, or counties, first enumerated in 1634 and spelled Accomac without the k. The county's name was changed to Northampton County in 1643. The present county was formed from Northampton about 1663. In October 1670, the General Assembly temporarily reunited Accomack and Northampton Counties as Northampton County. In November 1673, Accomack County was again separated from Northampton. In early records, the county’s name was spelled many ways. In 1940 the General Assembly adopted the present spelling, Accomack. The county gained a small part of the southern end of Smith’s Island from Somerset County, Maryland, in 1879, after the United States had approved boundary changes between Virginia and Maryland that had been agreed to in 1877. The county seat is Accomac.","Lost Locality Note:  A significant number of loose records from the 1700s suffered extreme water and pest damage. 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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","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. 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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.\n","Locality History:  Accomack County was named for the Accomac Indians, who lived on the Eastern Shore at the time of the first English settlement in Virginia. 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Bagwell, executor or Sarah (Sally) Bird, certifying that Leah, Jim, Agness, Lewis, Stran, Harry, Rachel, Sally, John, and Milly were emancipated by Bird's will and \"may be registered as free negroes\"; and a certificate, 1861, asking that Jessee, emancipated by William White, Sr., be given \"his free papers.\"\n","The orders, 1854, 1859, are comprised of an order, 1854, relative to an application to register as free persons submitted by Shadrach (68), Nancy (75), Leah (65), Rody (45), Betty (25), Emmy (25), Daniel (12 to 15), Ann (12 to 14), Leah (8 to 10), and Jacob (20), who were emancipated by the will of Margaret (Peggy) Bayly (Bayley). The court ordered that Shadrach, Nancy, and Leah be refused registration, and Rody, Betty, Emmy, and Jacob be allowed to register. Nothing is specified in relation to Daniel, Ann, or Leah. 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