Guadalupe County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Foster, Guadalupe County, Texas, 1867
Sam Foster registered to vote in Guadalupe County on July 15, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Guadalupe County registered 508 freedmen in 1867, 38% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Guadalupe County
Sam Foster
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Foster
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Guadalupe County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Guadalupe County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Fosters 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 9 of the Guadalupe County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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