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Sources consulted for the biography of:Littleton Owens (ca. 1842–1894)
Biographical Information
- Princess Anne Co. Register of Free Negroes (age sixteen in Apr. 1857).
- United States Census Schedules, Princess Anne Co., 1850 (age ten), 1860 (age eighteen), 1870 (age twenty-eight), 1880 (age thirty-six), and Special Schedule Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Richmond City, 1890; Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Compiled Service Military Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the U.S. Colored Troops (with age twenty-three on enlistment date of Jan. 1, 1864, and first name sometimes rendered as Middleton or Nettleton), Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 94, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Marriage Register, Princess Anne Co., 1868 (age twenty-six on Feb. 26), 1882 (age thirty-nine on Dec. 24), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Land Tax Returns, Princess Anne Co. (1884–1888), Auditor of Public Accounts, Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.
- Prison Register No. 6 (1885–1894), Nov. 26, 1889, Department of Corrections, Record Group 42, Library of Virginia.
- Secretary of the Commonwealth Executive Journal, July 11, 1893, Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Death Register, City of Norfolk (age fifty-five in Mar. 1894), Bureau of Vital Statistics, 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), 32 (with birth year of 1842).
Political Career
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 14 (1879), 17 (1881), 65 (1883), Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1879–1880 sess.), 29, 30, 60, 94, 143.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1881–1882 sess.), 30, 31, 36, 67, 85 (third quotation), 158, 236 (first and second quotations), 448.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1882 extra sess.), 16.
Newspapers
- Warsaw Northern Neck News, Feb. 20, 1880.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, Aug. 20, 1875 (brief biography with age thirty-four); July 10, 1883.
- Norfolk Virginian, Oct. 21, 1879; Jan. 25, 1888; Aug. 14, 1889.
- Norfolk Journal of Commerce, Nov. 16, 1889.
- Richmond Dispatch, Aug. 14, 1889; Sept. 6, 1889; July 12, 1893.
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