Galveston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Slaughter, Galveston County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Slaughter registered to vote in Galveston County on June 8, 1867. He reported 5 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Galveston County registered 1,179 freedmen in 1867, 39% of its voters.
- 5 years
- In Texas
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Joseph Slaughter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Slaughter
- County of registration
- Galveston County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- June 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Galveston County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Galveston County
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsJoseph Slaughter reported 4 years more in Texas than in Galveston County.
Other freedmen named Slaughter in Galveston County
- Philip Slaughterreached Texas about 1866
Slaughters 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 8 of the Galveston County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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