Henry,

If I can suggest an excellent source to add to your library:

Guild, June Purcell.  "Black Laws of Virginia:  A Summary of the Legislative
Acts of Virginia Concerning Negroes From Earliest Times to the Present."
4th printing by Afro-American Historical Asociation of Fauquier County,
Virginia.  Lovettsville, Virginia:  Willow Bend Books, 1995.

Mary Beth Dalton
Jigsaw Genealogy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Wiencek" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 10:52 AM
Subject: Fosters, Randolphs, and race laws


> This is the query I posted to VA-HIST:
>
> Can the list aid me in understanding the intricacies of
> Virginia race laws in the 1850s?  The following entries
> (unearthed by researcher Sam Towler) appear in the
> Albemarle County Minute Book 1856-1859:
>
> 6 Oct 1857 (pg 190): Application of . . . Susan Catharine
> Foster for a certification that [she is ] of mixed blood.
>
> same date (Pg 203):  ...upon evidence of Thomas J.
> Randolph that Susan Catharine Foster and Clayton Randolph
> Foster, children of Ann Foster, are not negroes in the
> meaning of the act of assembly.
>
> The involvement of Thomas Jefferson Randolph is, of
> course, intriguing, as is the fact that Clayton?s middle
> name is Randolph.
>
> In connection  with this, today?s Charlottesville Daily
> Progress carries an article about the excavation of Foster
> family graves near UVA.
>
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