Hello,
Can anyone tell me when this law was written?
I ask because of the following from an Ancestor's Will:
"Non Cupative Codicil
December 18th 1821
This day came--- before me an acting Justice of the Peace for Russell County Virginia,---  asked him if he had brought the New Revised Code of Virginia laws with 
him - he  said not, and he seemed to wish the law present that it might be done correctly, stating that the will he had was correctly drawn and signed, but that he wanted some alteration in it; that there had been an increase of negroes and he was afraid some would want a divide which was not his wish."End Quotes.
I cannot find the "New Revised Code of Virginia Laws" which is referred to in stated Will.
Thank You,
Ramona

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On: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:08:09 
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I noticed that several poster mentioned that during a certain period in Virginia history, Natives were excluded from being sold into slavery. In 1704 the designation of Indian was no longer valid. Virginia law gave
Natives options of being White, or black.  If a Native was dark, he/she lost the option, and was designated as a Dark Mulatto.
There was no clear cut law that kept Natives from being sold into slavery, since there was no designation of Indian.  The Virginia Assembly set up a
system in which Free Blacks, and Mulattos' were Indentured out for thirty Years.  This was a category that Natives (who were not Honorary Whites)
would have been under.

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