Register of Marriages of Freedmen
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 8: Indentures, Marriages, and Labor Contracts
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M826, Subseries 8.2
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content: Archival materials
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content: There are four registers of the marriages of freedmen, 1863–1866. Each entry provides such information as the name, residence, and age of the couple married; date of their marriage; their color and the color of their parents; and the names of the minister and witnesses to the ceremony. The second register contains  a list of ministers in Mississippi accredited by the War Department to conduct marriage services. The entries within the first, second, and fourth registers are generally arranged alphabetically by initial letter of the surname of the husband, and thereunder chronologically. The third register is arranged chronologically. The entries dated before July 1865 in the registers were compiled by the Freedmen's Department.