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Sources consulted for the biography of:William P. Lucas (ca. 1843 –1887)
Biographical Information
- Gordonsville Monthly Reports (1865–1866) in Records of the Field Offices in 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.
- Biography by a Freedmen's Bureau teacher in Freedmen's Record 4 (1868): 35–36 (giving his age as twenty-six in 1868).
- United States Census Schedules, Louisa Co., 1870 (age twenty-seven), 1880 (age thirty-five), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- First marriage and divorce recorded in William P. Lucas v. Annie Robinson Lucas, Louisa Co. Chancery Cause 1871–020, Library of Virginia.
- Second and third marriages recorded in Marriage Registers, Louisa County (age twenty-eight on Dec. 27, 1871; age thirty-three on Dec. 14, 1876), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Louisa Co. Deed Books 2:263, 473–474, 3:585, 7:672–673.
- Death Register, Louisa County (1887), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 26 (with 1843 birth date).
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, 78, 178.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1874–1875 sess.), 47 (second quotation), 274, 332.
Newspapers
- Two letters by Lucas in Freedmen's Record 4 (1868): 34–35 (first quotation), and 5 (1871): 110.
- Alexandria Gazette, April 9, 1867.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, April 18, 1867; September 8, 1874, April 8, 1875, March 17, 1881.
- Richmond Daily State Journal, October 8, 1873.
- Richmond Enquirer, August 20, 1875.
- Richmond Whig and Advertiser, August 9, 1872.
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