Free Blacks on the Clarke County, Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, 1836 -1862. Joy MacDonald.
The author has abstracted the information for free African-Americans in Clarke County City, Virginia and has arranged them into seven categories:
Year;
last name;
first name;
age;
occupation [only given infrequently on the rolls];
property description & value;
memo [oftentimes describing the exact location of the taxpayer or his former owners if freed in recent decades].
This volume is provided in three separate arrangements to facilitate genealogical research by African-American families; 1) chronologically by year; 2) sorted by last name of the individual; and 3) sorted by first name. 2014.11x8 1/2, vi, 65 pages. Paperback; printed on acid-free stock.
Similar volumes are available for Frederick County and the City of Winchester.
107-FBCL
