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Fluvanna Personal Property Tax 1782 Page 1
Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
Uncle Burton's Recollections of Chatham, VA. Commencing 1835
Narrative of Burton Payne, enslaved by John Wills at Chatham Plantation, and Albert Gallatin Wills of Forest Place Planation, narrative collected before 1922, identifies Burton Payne's father Thomas Mathews
Death Certificate of Burton Payne
Death Certificate of Burton Payne founder of African American community "Payne Town" includes notation "slave of AG Wills" died at age 105
1867 Colored Voter Lists Louisa County
These transcriptions are made available online at the Library of Virginia and presented here courtesy of the LVA.
Freedmens Bureau Records of Louisa County Finding Aid
The index and finding aid is a brief abstract of each item in the collection and includes the names of all individuals mentioned in each item.
Louisa County Free Black Register, Vol 2. # 632-658 and misc pages 294-302
N.o 632
State of Virginia - Louisa County to wit. The Court of said County having on the 14.th day of September 1863 ordered that John Patterson son of Ann Patterson a free negro be registered by the Clerk of this Court according to law: It is…
State of Virginia - Louisa County to wit. The Court of said County having on the 14.th day of September 1863 ordered that John Patterson son of Ann Patterson a free negro be registered by the Clerk of this Court according to law: It is…
Louisa County Free Black Register, Vol 2 #585(b)-631
N.o 585(b)
Elisha Harris was born free in the County of Louisa in the State of Virginia; Given under my hand the 6.th day of July 1858 (Signed) David M Hunter Clerk Louisa County Court
N.o 586
State of Virginia
Louisa County To wit
The Court…
Elisha Harris was born free in the County of Louisa in the State of Virginia; Given under my hand the 6.th day of July 1858 (Signed) David M Hunter Clerk Louisa County Court
N.o 586
State of Virginia
Louisa County To wit
The Court…
Louisa County Free Black Register Vol 2, #542-585
N.o 542
State of Virginia
Louisa County to Wit
The Court of said County having on the 14.th day of November 1853 Ordered that Thomas Thacker a free negro be registered by the Clerk of said Court according to law: It is therefore certified to all…
State of Virginia
Louisa County to Wit
The Court of said County having on the 14.th day of November 1853 Ordered that Thomas Thacker a free negro be registered by the Clerk of said Court according to law: It is therefore certified to all…
Louisa County Free Black Register Book 2, #468-541
N.o 468
State of Virginia
Louisa county, to wit
The Court of the said County having, on the 11.th day of October 1852, Ordered that Edward Ragland a free negro, be registered by the Clerk of said Court according to Law: It is therefore certified…
State of Virginia
Louisa county, to wit
The Court of the said County having, on the 11.th day of October 1852, Ordered that Edward Ragland a free negro, be registered by the Clerk of said Court according to Law: It is therefore certified…
Easter Clough or Cluff seeks information on her children
Easter Cluff was an enslaved woman sold by Samuel Clough in the mid-1850s. This letter, written in 1866 by her last owner before emancipation is addressed from Macon, Georgia, in the hopes of learning from anyone in Louisa County about Easter's…
Trial of those involved in the Boxley Slave Revolt 1816
Trial of those involved in the Boxley Slave Revolt.
The trail occurred about a week after the incident.
At a Court of Oyer and Terminar held at the courthouse of Louisa County on Tuesday the fifth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and…
The trail occurred about a week after the incident.
At a Court of Oyer and Terminar held at the courthouse of Louisa County on Tuesday the fifth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and…