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Sources consulted for the biography of:Burwell Toler (ca. 1822–1880)
Biographical Information
- Age 48 on August 18, 1870 in United States Census Schedules, Hanover County, 1870, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Ordination in Minutes and Proceedings of the Colored Shiloh Baptist Association of Virginia (1865) 7, 9
- Authorized to perform marriages in Henrico County in Henrico County Minute Book (1864–1867), 330, Library of Virginia
- First quotation in letter from Ira Ayer Jr. to James A. Bates, May 3, 1867, in Letters Received, Oct. 1865–Dec. 1868, Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia (1865–1872), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Hanover County Deed Book 4, p. 536, Library of Virginia
- Register of Deaths, Hanover County, 1880 (with variant birth year of ca. 1810), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
- Brief biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 42
Political Career
- 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, 105, 445
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Convened in the City of Richmond, December 3, 1867… [1868], esp. 389
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 360 (second quotation)
- Convention voting analysis in 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
- 1869 election results 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," 16
Newspapers
- Alexandria Gazette, October 24, 1867; November 5, 1867; May 28, 1868
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, February 4, 1868; February 29, 1868; April 15, 1868
- Richmond Enquirer and Examiner, February 4, 1868; February 29, 1868
- Staunton Spectator, November 12, 1867; February 11, 1868; March 3, 1868
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