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Sources consulted for the biography of:Armistead S. Nickens (1836–1906)
Primary Sources
- Month and year of birth in United States Census Schedules, Lancaster County, 1900, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Northumberland County Register of Free Negroes, 1849–1851 [1849–1858], Library of Virginia
- E. W. Busby to O. Brown, April 1, 1867, in Reports on Prominent Whites and Freedmen, March–May 1867 in Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Virginia (1865–1869), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1048, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- March 1, 1872, application (no. 4329) in Registers of Signatures of Depositors, Freedman's Savings and Trust Company (1865–1874), Records of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Record Group 101, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Second marriage in Lancaster County Marriage License, 1871, Library of Virginia
- Lancaster County Deed Books 43, 47, 48, 49, Library of Virginia
- Nickens's election to the House of Delegates in 1871 (Election Record No. 2) and 1873 (Election Record No. 3), both in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia
- 1883 testimony in House of Representatives, 48th Congress, 1st Session, Misc. Document No. 18, Testimony and Papers in the Contested-Election Case of George T. Garrison vs. Robert M. Mayo, from the First Congressional District of Virginia (January 10, 1884), 274–275
- Estate inventory and accounts in Lancaster County Estate Book 44:111, 116–117, Library of Virginia
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 29, 60
- J. Allen Ball, "The Honorable Armistead S. Nickens, Statesman, Virginia Gentleman, Father: A Memoir," Pleasant Living 2 (Winter 1990): 16–17, 22, 25.
- Carolyn H. Jett, Lancaster County, Virginia: Where the River Meets the Bay (2003): 158, 226, 398
Newspapers
- nomination speech reported in Fredericksburg Herald, August 28, 1873
- feature article with possible middle name (misspelled as Stocklas) in Norfolk Journal and Guide, April 8, 1972
Obituaries
- Death notice with death date of April 26, 1906, in Irvington Virginia Citizen, May 4, 1906
- Memorial with death date of April 25, 1906, in Irvington Virginia Citizen, June 15, 1906
- Memorial by Calvary Baptist Church with no death date in Irvington Virginia Citizen, June 8, 1906
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