Register of Applications of Freedmen for Land
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 8: Records Relating to Confiscated and Abandoned Lands
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1027, Subseries 8.4
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content: Archival materials
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content: The register of freedmen's applications for land, September 1–November 24, 1865, is arranged numerically by date of receipt of application. Each entry includes the register number; name of applicant; agents' and partners' names, if any; date of application; number of members and sex and age of each member in applicant's family; number and location of acres applied for; applicant's resources for working a farm; and remarks. Some entries note the date on which a freedman received property.