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Sources consulted for the biography of:Caesar Perkins (1839–1910)
Primary Sources
- Month and year of birth in United States Census Schedules, Alleghany County and Buckingham County, 1900, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Reports on Prominent Whites and Freedmen, March–May 1867, in Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Virginia (1865–1869), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1048, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Second marriage recorded in Marriage Register, Richmond City, 1899, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
- Real estate purchases documented in:
- Alleghany County Deed Books 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 29
- Buckingham County Deed Books 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15
- Buckingham County Court Minute Book 1, p. 447, and Book 2, pp. 8–9, 41, 147, Library of Virginia
- Slate River Colored Baptist Association Minutes, 1877, 1881, 1887, 1889
- 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," 7
- 1887 election in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 24, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia
- Richmond City Department of Heath Death Certificate, 1910, no. 2079, Library of Virginia (with variant birth date of March 1828)
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 33 (portrait on 68)
- Eugene A. Maloney, A History of Buckingham County (1976), 69–71
Newspapers
- Biographical information in Richmond Daily Dispatch, August 20, 1875
- Roanoke Times, May 6, 1892
- Richmond Planet, June 16, 1894; April 27, 1895; May 9, 1896; November 26, 1904; May 5, 1906
- Staunton Spectator and Vindicator, October 27, 1898
- Richmond Dispatch, September 10, 1902
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 31, 1910
Obituaries
- Richmond Planet, September 24, 1910
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 26, 1910
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