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Rev. H. J. Young searching for Moses and Lewis Davis on behalf of Jefferson Davis [former enslaved man]

Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)

May 10, 1856

INFORMATION WANTED.
JEFFERSON DAVIS in company with his
brothers Moses and Lewis, left Loudon
County Virginia, about eleven years ago in
search of freedom, but on their way they was
attacked by slave-catchers, at which time a battle
ensued, resulting in the capture of Jefferson,
while the other two Moses and Lewis effected
their…

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Julia Williams looking for brothers Alfred, Pete, and Bill Cawood

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

March 17, 1887

INFORMATION WANTED OF MY
brothers, Alfred, Pete and Bill Cawood,
who were sold South before the war by Ben
and Thomas Hicks, sons of the widow Emma
Hicks, to whose estate we belonged in Lou-
den county, Va, on the road between the
towns of Paris and Upperville. Our father's
name was Hays Cawood, and mother's
name was Sarah Cawood …

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Permelia Muse searching for several members of the Berryman family including Jefferson, Anna Mason, George Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and Mary Catharine Berryman

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

May 16, 1868

INFORMATION WANTED
of the following members of my family,
who lived in Loudon County, Virginia.
Jefferson Berryman, his daughter Anna
Mason Berryman, and two sons, George
Jackson Berryman and Thomas Jefferson
Berryman. Also, of Mary Catharine Berry-
man, who went to Missouri about 12 years
ago. My mother, now deceased, was named
Maria…

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