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Sources consulted for the biography of:James F. Lipscomb (1830–1893)
Primary Sources
- Mother identified on his February 25, 1851, registration and on the 1837 and 1838 lists of free Negroes, Cumberland County Free Negro and Slave Records, 1753–1865, Local Government Records Collection, Barcodes 1156165 and 1156166, Library of Virginia
- Property holding in Cumberland County Deed Books 30:114, 332, 393–394; 32:203–204; 34:30–31; 37:84–85, 85–86, Library of Virginia
- Cumberland County Land Tax Returns, 1892 (Colored), Record Group 48, Library of Virginia
- General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the result of the election for members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, held on the 6th day of July, 1869," 10
- Secretary of the Commonwealth Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 3 (1871), Accession 26041, barcode 1142948, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia
- Secretary of the Commonwealth Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 2 (1873), Accession 26041, barcode 1142947, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia
- Secretary of the Commonwealth Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 29 (1875), Accession 26041, barcode 1142967, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia
- Secretary of the Commonwealth Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 413 (1877), Accession 38055, barcode 1149335, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia
- Register of Deaths, Cumberland County, 1893, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 25–26, with portrait on 31; reprinted in Cumberland County Virginia and Its People (1987), 87
- Birth date on Virginia Department of Historic Resources highway marker, probably from family sources, printed in Scott David Arnold, comp., A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers, 3d ed. (2007), 258
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, September 28, 1871; August 20, 21, 1875
- Richmond Daily State Journal, April 6, 1872; June 1, 19, 1872; July 12, 1872; July 26, 1873
- Washington, D.C., New National Era, August 20, 1874
- History of store in Rob Chapman, "Family, Friends Remember Life of James F. Lipscomb," Farmville Herald, September 7, 1994; reprinted in Cumberland County Virginia Historical Bulletin 10 (1995): 38
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