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 The federal, county, and city governments kept the most systematic
records in nineteenth-century America. These include population and
agricultural censuses, tax digests, and for Augusta county, records
about slaveowners and free blacks. Each kind of record describes a
different group of people. The first three sources are common to both
Virginia and Pennsylvania, although there are some differences in the
types of information collected.
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