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Sources consulted for the biography of:Richard Henry Dickinson (1811 or 1812–1873)
Biographical Information
- United States Census Schedules, Henrico Co., 1850 (age thirty-eight on Dec. 6), 1860 (age forty-eight on July 25), Middlesex Co., 1870 (age fifty-eight on Aug. 6), all Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Middlesex Co. Marriage Register.
- Marriage notice in Daily Richmond Whig, April 1, 1841.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers (1861–1865), War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, 28 Feb. 1865 (first quotation).
- Approximate time of death established by Richmond City Chancery Court Deed Book, 101A:127 (still living "at half past Nine. A. M.," August 2, 1873); Henrico Co. Order Book (1873–1874), 307 (second quotation); and Middlesex Co. Order Book (1870–1875), 231
Business Records
- R. H. Dickinson and Brother daybook and correspondence (1846–1849) and Dickinson, Hill, and Co. account book and correspondence (1855–1862), both in Slavery in the United States Collection, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. (also available on microfilm at Library of Virginia, Acc. 51299).
- Richard H. Dickinson Papers, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Ill.
- Dickinson, Hill, and Co. Letters (1855–1864), Acc. 41707, Library of Virginia.
- Austin-Twyman Papers (1765–1939), Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
- Numerous entries in Henrico Co. and Richmond City Deed Books, in Land Tax and Personal Property Tax Returns, Henrico Co. and Richmond City, both Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.
- Numerous entries in Mutual Assurance Society Declarations, Acc. 30177, Library of Virginia
Secondary Sources
- Jan Richard Heier, "Accounting for the Business of Suffering: A Study of the Antebellum Richmond, Virginia, Slave Trade," Abacus: A Journal of Accounting, Finance and Business Studies 46 (2010): 60–83.
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