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Sources consulted for the biography of:William Faulcon (1841–1904)
Primary Sources
- Birth date of Feb. 8 and age 31 on June 15, 1872 application (no. 4370), Registers of Signatures of Depositors, Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company (1865–1874), Records of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Record Group 101, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
- Age 29 on July 1, 1870 in United States Census Schedules, Surry Co., 1870; age 39 on June 2, 1880 in United States Census Schedules, Surry Co., 1880; and variant birth date of Feb. 1842 on June 23, 1900 in United States Census Schedules, Surry Co., 1900, all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- First marriage in Surry Co. Freedman's Marriage Register, Library of Virginia.
- Second marriage in Surry Co. Marriage Licenses (1888), Library of Virginia.
- Third marriage in Surry Co. Marriage Register (1890), Library of Virginia.
- Land and financial transactions recorded in Surry Co. Deed Books 17, 18, 20, 22, Library of Virginia.
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 20 (1885), Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Estate inventory in Surry Co. Will Book, 13:524–525, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 16.
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily State Journal, October 24, 1871
- Richmond Daily Whig, September 28, 1885
- Richmond Dispatch, October 21, November 4, 1891
- Newport News Daily Press, September 23, 1898
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