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Sources consulted for the biography of:Fountain M. Perkins (1816 or 1817–1896)
Biographical Information
- Age 63 on June 2–4, 1880, United States Census Schedules, Louisa County, 1880, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Marriage documented in Louisa Courthouse, Assistant Subassistant Commissioner, Register of Black Persons in Louisa Legally Married by Act of Virginia Assembly Passed February 27, 1866, in Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia (1865–1872), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. (with age 49 as of February 27, 1866).
- 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.
- Land transactions documented in Louisa County Deed Books, Library of Virginia.
- Family information in Louisa County Chancery Causes, Jennie Perkins etc. v. F.M. Perkins etc., 1905-006, Local Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Colored Shiloh Baptist Association Minutes, 1873–1884.
- Death Register, Louisa County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia (with variant age of 68).
- Will and estate appraisal in Louisa County Will Book 20, 27–29, 49–52, Library of Virginia.
Political Career
- 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," 20.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1869–70 (1870), esp. 36, 37, 54, 615.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1870–71 (1871), esp. 23, 387.
- Alexandria Gazette, April 11, 1867
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 34 (with birth year of 1816), 77.
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