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Sources consulted for the biography of:Peter George Morgan (1817–1890)
Primary Sources
- Biography by son-in-law James Solomon Russell in Journal of Negro History 8 (1923): 341–344 (with manumission date of July 1854 and middle name George)
- Birth date on gravestone, People's Memorial Cemetery, Petersburg
- City of Petersburg, Register of Free Negroes, 1859-1864, Local Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia, March 20, 1863 (with manumission date of July 7, 1857)
- Manumission of Morgan's family members in Petersburg Hustings Court Deed Book, no. 28 (1863–1866), 128, Library of Virginia
- Morgan's application to register as a free negro in Petersburg Hustings Court Minute Book (1861–1867), 193, 213, 217, Library of Virginia
- 1867 election in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 427, Accession 38055, Barcode 1151341, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Assembled at the City of Richmond, Tuesday, December 3, 1867… [1868], esp. 30, 60, 93, 105, 285, 554
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Convened in the City of Richmond, December 3, 1867… [1868], 29
- 1869 election in 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," 27
- Death Register, Brunswick County, 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), 28
- Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 461–484, esp. 483
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 341–360, esp. 350
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 10, 1867 (identified as George Morgan); October 21, 1867
- Caricature of Morgan in Richmond Southern Opinion, March 28, 1868
- Petersburg Index, December 12, 1868; January 21, 1869; July 7, 1869; May 24, 1872; May 25, 1872; May 23, 1873
- Petersburg Index and Appeal, July 1, 1874; May 25, 1888
Obituaries
- Death notice in Alexandria Gazette, March 17, 1890
- Obituary and memorial in Petersburg Daily Index-Appeal, March 17, 1890; March 18, 1890 (with birth date and with manumission date of July 4, 1854)
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