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Sources consulted for the biography of:William P. Moseley (ca. 1819–1890)
Biographical and Family Information
- Biography in Luther P. Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 28–29.
- Moseley-Turpin family history and traditions in Augustus Turpin Granger, "Edwin Turpin of Goochland County, Virginia," Goochland County Historical Society Magazine 25 (1993): 21–28, and Josephine Turpin Washington, "Of Mr. Turpin and Dr. Crump," ibid., 29–33.
- Land transactions and family documented in Theodore C. Moseley et al v. W. L. Davis et ux, Goochland Co. Chancery Causes, 1901-012, in Creditors of Edwin Turpin v. Administrator of Edwin Turpin, Goochland Co. Chancery Causes, 1902-004, and in Trustees of Martha Catherine Moseley v. Robert Iverson, Goochland Co. Chancery Causes, 1875-011, all Library of Virginia.
- Freedmen's Bureau agent description in Reports on Prominent Whites and Freedmen, March–May 1867, in Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia (1865–1872), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1913, Roll 67, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Fluvanna Co. Deed Book 19:234–235.
- Henrico Co. Deed Book, 82:438.
- Goochland Co. Deed Book, 42:163.
Political Career
- National Anti-Slavery Standard, November 13, 1869 (quotation).
- Moseley's 1867 election in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 427, Accession 38055, Barcode 1151341, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 352.
- 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): 483.
- Moseley's election to Senate of Virginia in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the result of the election for members of the State Senate of Virginia, Held July 6, 1869," p. 4.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 9, 1869; July 10, 1869.
- Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1870), 485, 508.
Obituary
- Richmond Planet, August 30, 1890, with date of death "in the 72nd year of his age," and variant middle initial N.
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