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Sources consulted for the biography of:George Lewis Seaton ( –1881)
Biographical Information
- 1841 and 1847 registration in Arlington County (Alexandria County) Free Negro Register, 1749–1841 (entry no. 749, with first quotation regarding age) and Free Negro Register, 1847–1861 (entry no. 176), both Library of Virginia
- Property transactions recorded in Alexandria City Deed Books, Library of Virginia
- First marriage in Arlington County, District of Columbia (Alexandria County), Marriage Bonds, Library of Virginia
- Second marriage in Alexandria City Marriage Register, 1870–1905, Library of Virginia
- Death Register, Alexandria City, 1881, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia (with variant death date of July 6, 1881)
- Alexandria Gazette, October 23, 1919
Freedmen's Bureau
- S. P. Lee to General Orlando Brown, April 10, 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.
- Second quotation in S. P. Lee to General O. Brown, June 3, 1867, in Offices of Staff Officers, Quartermaster and Disbursing Officer, Registered Letters Received, in Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, RG 105, Microfilm M1913, roll 23, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Articles of agreement, contracts, and correspondence relating to Seaton's construction of two schools in Registered Letters Received in the Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, RG 105, Microfilm M1913, including rolls 27, 32, 43, and 46, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Political Career
- 1869 election 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," 4
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1870–71 (1871), 174, 199
- 1871 election in Statements of Election for House of Delegates, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 4 (1871), Accession 26041, barcode 1142949, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia
Secondary Sources
- Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 38
- Peter Bernstein et al, The Life and Times of George Lewis Seaton, Alexandria Archaeology Publications, No. 121 (2001; printed 2003)
- Alton S. Wallace, I Once Was Young: History of the Alfred Street Baptist Church, 1803–2003 (2003), esp. 58–59
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, May 7, 1867
- Alexandria Gazette, April 11, 1868; June 18, 1868; June 11, 1869; July 11, 1871; October 18, 1871; October 27, 1871; April 22, 1873; February 10, 1875
Obituaries
- Alexandria Gazette, July 5, 1881 ("died about one o'clock this afternoon"); July 6, 1881
- Washington Post, July 6, 1881; July 8, 1881
- Washington Evening Star, July 7, 1881 (account of funeral)
- Washington People's Advocate, July 16, 1881
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