PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi01360::A Guide to the Richmond (Va.) List of Colored Voters Registered at Second Precinct in Jackson Ward, 1886-1896)//EN" "vi01360.xml" A Guide to the Richmond (Va.) List of Colored Voters Registered at Second Precinct in Jackson Ward, 1886-1896 Richmond (Va.) List of Colored Voters Registered at Second Precinct in Jackson Ward, 1886-1896 1182450 Sarah Nerney Library of Virginia © 2007 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, created by Sarah Nerney, 15 November 2007 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Richmond (Va.) List of Colored Voters Registered at Second Precinct in Jackson Ward, 1886-1896 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 1182450 Sarah Nerney

Library of Virginia 2007 Sarah Nerney Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Richmond (Va.) List of Colored Voters Registered at Second Precinct in Jackson Ward, 1886-1896 1182450 Library of Virginia 1 v. English Richmond (Va.) Department of Parks and Recreation. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Richmond (Va.) List of Colored Voters Registered at Second Precinct in Jackson Ward, 1886-1896. Local government records collection, Richmond (City) Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

This item came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court papers from the city of Richmond Department of Parks and Recreation under the accession number 43467.

Historical Information

Richmond was established in 1742 and incorporated as a city in 1842. The city of Manchester was annexed in 1910; Barton Heights, Fairmont, and Highland Park in 1914; and part of Chesterfield County in 1970.

Scope and Content

Richmond (Va.) List of Colored Voters Registered at Second Precinct in Jackson Ward, 1886-1896, contains a list of all registered male African American voters for the second precinct in Jackson Ward in the city of Richmond. The information recorded includes the date registered, registration number, full name, "has he been sworn," age in years, occupation, residence, length of residence in city, length of residence in state, and a section about naturalization which was used to record notes about other districts a registration was transferred to or from. The volume is arranged alphabetically by surname.

Arrangement

Alphabetical by surname.

Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

The city of Richmond is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional city of Richmond Court Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the Lost Records Localities Database found at the Library of Virginia web site.

Index Terms Corporate Names: Richmond (Va.) Department of Parks and Recreation. Subjects: African Americans -- Suffrage -- Virginia -- Richmond. Voting registers -- Virginia -- Richmond. Geographical Names: Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 19th century. Genre and Form Terms: Local government records -- Virginia -- Richmond. Registers (lists) -- Virginia -- Richmond.