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Sources consulted for the biography of:Henry C. Hill (ca. 1815–1905)
Biographical Information
- Amelia County Register of Free Negroes, 1855–1865, with age forty on November 22, 1855, and age forty-five on October 25, 1860, Local Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Poll Book District No. 5, County of Amelia, 1867, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Military Rule Election Records (1867, 1869), Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Amelia County Deed Books, 42:277, 676–677, 46:84, 48:137–138, 49:151, 50:555.
- Amelia County Order Book 52:41, 382.
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 20.
- Kathleen Halverson Hadfield and W. Cary McConnaughey, eds., Historical Notes on Amelia County, Virginia (1982), 490.
Political Career
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 6 (1873), State Government Records Collection, Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1874 sess.), 41, 93, 119.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1874–1875 sess.), 60–61, 97, 108, 326, 332.
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 6, 1871; July 25, 1873; November 6, 1873.
- Richmond Daily State Journal, August 19, 1873, February 13, 1874.
Obituary
- Date of death at age eighty-five in Richmond Planet, September 23, 1905.
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