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Hector and Harriett Doctor, Berkeley, SC ~ 3 Generations Named In Letter to Freedmen’s Bureau, 1867

Mar 20, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!

This remarkable letter, written in 1867 by Charles B. Lucas of Whitehall, SC to the Freedmen’s Bureau, names 3 generations of the African American Doctor family. In the letter, Charles Lucas writes to Captain Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, to request...

Freedmen’s Bureau Record Breaks Through the 1870 Brick Wall for SC African American Genealogy

Feb 28, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors, SC Records

So rarely does a record from Reconstruction actually connect freed people to a former slaveholder. When we find records like this we are so excited. We are very excited today, because we found another! This record is a part of the “Pre-Bureau” records for...

Freedmen’s Labor Contract, A.J. Hardee With Tibby Williams, Louise Hunter and Emma Jones, Brooks County, GA, 1866

Feb 11, 2013 | GA Freedmen’s Labor Contracts

Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Savannah, Georgia Labor Contracts, 1865-1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1903, Roll 82 TITLE OF CONTRACT: A J Hardee and...