Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865 to 1872
Freedmen's Bureau Records
After the Civil War, the Freedmen's Bureau helped newly freed people reunite with family, secure wages, testify against violence, legalize marriages, and go to school. Its officers wrote down what they saw: criminal cases, labor disputes, reports of outrages, marriages, and letters from families still searching for one another. Every case below comes from transcribed Bureau record books held by the National Archives, and every name we read is published here for free, forever.
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May 1 · Hinds Co., MS · Mississippi
Lucinda BurnsRichard Jones (col)James BurnsRachael Burns
Lucinda Burns, aged 12, was indentured for 6 years to Richard Jones in Hinds County, Mississippi. Her parents, James and Rachael Burns, are deceased.
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May 1 Lucinda Burns 12 yrs old 6 yrs Hinds Co., MS Richard Jones (col) Warren Co., MS
(daughter of James and Rachael Burns , both deceased and formerly of Hinds County, Mississippi)
Records of the Assistant Commissioner For the State of Mississippi Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865 - 1869 National Archives Microfilm Publication M826, Roll 42