Galveston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Stephan Presley, Galveston County, Texas, 1867
Stephan Presley registered to vote in Galveston County on July 13, 1867. He reported 10 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Galveston County registered 1,179 freedmen in 1867, 39% of its voters.
- 10 years
- In Texas
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Stephan Presley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Stephan Presley
- County of registration
- Galveston County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Galveston County
- 5 months
- Years in the precinct
- 5 months
- Years in Texas before Galveston County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsStephan Presley reported 9 years more in Texas than in Galveston County.
Presleys elsewhere in Texas
Sources
This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It sits on page 42 of the Galveston County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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