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Sources consulted for the biography of:Frederick Smith Norton ( –1893)
Primary Sources
- Age 40 reported on July 16, 1870 in U. S. Census, Williamsburg, 1870; age 51 reported on June 5, 1880 in U. S. Census, Williamsburg, 1870, both in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Age 80 reported in Williamsburg Virginia Gazette, November 17, 1893
- City Council career in City of Williamsburg, City Council Record Book (1879–1895), 8, 29, 50, 57, Library of Virginia
- Circuit Court City of Williamsburg, County of James City, Will Book 2, 36–37, 66–67, Library of Virginia
- Election result in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the result of the election for members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, held on the 6th day of July, 1869," 18
- Virginia General Assembly, House of Delegates, House Documents, Document 12, "Report of the Committee of Privileges and Elections in the Contested Election Case of Chas. W. Buttz, vs. F. S. Norton" (1870)
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1869–70 (1870), esp. 189, 220, 606, 615
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 30
Newspapers
- Alexandria Gazette, November 26, 1869
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 25, 1869; September 29, 1882; September 28, 1883; November 18, 1883
Obituaries
- Williamsburg Virginia Gazette, November 17, 1893 (with death date of November 14, 1893)
- Richmond Dispatch, November 17, 1893 (with variant death date of November 15, 1893)
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