Register of Applications of Freedmen for Land
Object Details
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- Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
- Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 8: Records Relating to Confiscated and Abandoned Lands
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Identifier
- NMAAHC.FB.M1027, Subseries 8.4
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
- Scope and Contents
- The register of freedmen's applications for land, September 1–November 24, 1865, is arranged numerically by date of receipt of application. Each entry includes the register number; name of applicant; agents' and partners' names, if any; date of application; number of members and sex and age of each member in applicant's family; number and location of acres applied for; applicant's resources for working a farm; and remarks. Some entries note the date on which a freedman received property.
- Collection Restrictions
- Freedmen's Bureau Digital Collection, 1865–1872, is a product of and owned by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Copyright for digital images is retained by the donor, FamilySearch International; permission for commercial use of the digital images may be requested from FamilySearch International, Intellectual Property Office, at: [email protected].
- Record ID
- ebl-1588595442873-1588595442910-3
- Metadata Usage
- CC0