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Sources consulted for the biography of:Joseph Farrar (1830–1892)
Biographical Information
- Birth and death dates on gravestone, Barton Heights Cemeteries, Richmond, Virginia
- Biographical sketch and will in Farrar Family Papers, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Farrar's registration as a free negro in Free Negro Register, 3 December 1850, Albemarle Co. Free Negro and Slave Records, 1796–1870, Library of Virginia
- 1863 trial record in Richmond City Hustings Court Minute Book 28 (1862–1863): 658, Library of Virginia
- Minutes of the Richmond Educational Association, 1867–1878, Ralza M. Manly Collection, City Records Office, Richmond Public Library, Richmond, Virginia
- Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Ebenezer Baptist Church (Richmond City) Records, 1858–1975, Acc. 33482, Library of Virginia
- Virginia Baptist State Convention Minutes, 1870–1892
- Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States of America Minutes, 1881–1891
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1 Oct. 1867, 9 June 1869, 17 June 1869, 25 June 1869
- Richmond Daily State Journal, 6 January 1871
- Richmond Whig, 23 March 1886
- Richmond Dispatch, 18 May 1886, 1 June 1886
- Richmond Planet, 24 May 1890
- Richmond Dispatch, 10 March 1892, 12 March 1892
- Richmond Planet, 12 March 1892, 19 March 1892
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