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Start Over Repository Library of Virginia Subjects Freedmen--Virginia--Norfolk County.
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Norfolk County (Va.) Court Correspondence with U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1866

Norfolk County (Va.) Court Correspondence with the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1866. The collection contains a letter, 1865 Nov. 23, from the Norfolk Court to Colonel Thomas F. Jackson, Assistant Superintendent of the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Norfolk offices, requesting action to prevent freedmen from bearing arms and destroying property; a letter from Jackson, 1865, Dec. 11, announcing plans to seize arms in the hands of freedmen on the Sabbath to stop the habit among freedmen of hunting on the Sabbath. Also included is a series of questions to the county court, 1866 April 14, regarding the county's system of collecting taxes for the support of the poor, and the court's response, 1866, May 3. The officers of the court express concern about whether the county will be able to provide for the poor as a consequence of emancipation and immigration of freedmen from other counties and states during the war. The collection also contains a copy of printed Circular No. 25 from the Headquarters of the Department of Virginia and Circular No. 6 from the Headquarters, District of South Eastern Virginia, Norfolk, announcing plans to detail officers to every neighborhood to correct the impression that the U.S. government intended to divide among the freedmen large quantities of land on Christmas Day, 1865.

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Norfolk County (Va.) Court Correspondence with U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1866

Chesapeake County (Va.) Circuit Court.

Norfolk County (Va.) Court Correspondence with the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1866. The collection contains a letter, 1865 Nov. 23, from the Norfolk Court to Colonel Thomas F. Jackson, Assistant Superintendent of the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Norfolk offices, requesting action to prevent freedmen from bearing arms and destroying property; a letter from Jackson, 1865, Dec. 11, announcing plans to seize arms in the hands of freedmen on the Sabbath to stop the habit among freedmen of hunting on the Sabbath. Also included is a series of questions to the county court, 1866 April 14, regarding the county's system of collecting taxes for the support of the poor, and the court's response, 1866, May 3. The officers of the court express concern about whether the county will be able to provide for the poor as a consequence of emancipation and immigration of freedmen from other counties and states during the war. The collection also contains a copy of printed Circular No. 25 from the Headquarters of the Department of Virginia and Circular No. 6 from the Headquarters, District of South Eastern Virginia, Norfolk, announcing plans to detail officers to every neighborhood to correct the impression that the U.S. government intended to divide among the freedmen large quantities of land on Christmas Day, 1865.

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