Register of Freedmen Departing Mason's Island, VA
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.1: Local Superintendent for Washington and Georgetown / 3.1.4: Other Records
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1902, Item 3.1.4.2
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content: Archival materials
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content: The single–volume register of freedmen departing from Mason's Island, VA, May 1864–July 1865 (92) is arranged chronologically. The register gives the names, sex, and ages of freedmen and the places where they were sent. The volume also contains a register of applicants for employment dated June 1865, which was probably compiled by an employment agent in the District of Columbia. For other records relating to Mason's Island, see the single volume of accounts of materials used in industrial schools and miscellaneous lists (98) mentioned below.