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The Freedmen's Bureau Online

Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the District of Columbia
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869
National Archives Microfilm Publication M1055 Roll 21
"Miscellaneous Reports and Lists"


Summary of Census Returns of Colored People, Fairfax County, Virginia, November 15th, 1865

No. Blacks - 2332
No. Mulattoes - 540
No. Quadroons - 60
No. Octoroons - 9
Total: 2941

No. Males - 1552
No. Females - 1389

No. 14 years of age and under - 1121
No. under 20 & over 14 - 423
No. under 50 & over 20 - 1140
No. under 70 & over 50 - 203
No. over 70 - 54

Status on Jany. 1st, 1863

No. Slave - 2167
No. Free - 774

Resident - 2878
Non-Resident - 63
Laborers - 2133
Mechanics - 27
Employed by Gov't - 99
Employed by former owner - 163
Not employed - 274
Helped by Gov't - 91

Able to read - 128
Unable to read - 2813
Unable to support themselves - 539