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Sources consulted for the biography of:McDowell Delaney (ca. 1844–after 1924)
Primary Sources
- Birth date and variant death date of May 31, 1926, on monument erected in Delaney's memory at Chester Grove Baptist Church, Amelia County.
- Birth year and death date of May 30, 1926, on Death Certificate, Cumberland County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- United States Census Schedules, Amelia County, 1850 (age six on Nov
- United States Census Schedules, Amelia County, 1850 (age six on Nov. 16), 1860 (age fifteen on June 2), 1870 (age twenty-six on June 22), 1880 (age thirty-three on June 2), all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Marriage Register, Cumberland County (age twenty-nine on Jan. 29, 1873), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Amelia Co. Order Book, 47:201, 261, 374, 377, 48:44, 52, 87, 92, 49:72, 111, Library of Virginia.
- Offices of Staff Officers, Quartermaster and Disbursing Officer, Reports of Persons and Articles Hired, May 1866–March 1867, in Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- James H. Anderson v. McD. Delaney, Amelia County Chancery Causes, 1907–006, Local Government Records Collection, Amelia Court Records, Library of Virginia.
- Confederate Pension Application (age eighty on Aug. 2, 1924), Act of 1902 (Servants), Department of Accounts, Record Group 6, Accession 23345, Library of Virginia.
Political Career
- Election results in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the Result for the Election for Members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, Held July 6, 1869," 3.
- Election Record no. 4 (1871) and 6 (1873), in Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 428, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1871–72 (1873), 32, 33, 70, 124, 389.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 8,1871; November 9, 1871; November 10, 1871
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 12 (with birth year of 1844 and undocumented death year of 1929), 68 (portrait).
- Kathleen Halverson Hadfield, ed., Historical Notes on Amelia County, Virginia (1982), 485, 486, 489, 541.
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