1793
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- December 10 - the Virginia legislature passed "An Act ... to restrain the practice of negroes going at large." The provisions of the act included the stipulation that "every free negro or mulatto, who resides in, or is employed to labour within the limits of any city, borough or town, shall be registered and numbered in a book to be kept for that purpose by the clerk of the said city, borough or town, which register shall specify his or her age, name, colour and stature, by whom and in what court the said negro or mulatto was emancipated; or that such negro or mulatto was born free . .. . a Copy . .. [was] to be annually delivered to the said negro or mulatto." Although county regulations do not mention a register, "no free negro or mulatto ... [was] to go at large or hire himself or herself to labour in any county, without having his or her certificate registered in the clerk's office of the county wherein he or she resides."[1]
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- ↑ Barbara Vines Little, editor, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 39, issue no. 4, November 2001, 271.