Guadalupe County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Soloman Scruggs, Guadalupe County, Texas, 1869
Soloman Scruggs registered to vote in Guadalupe County on November 20, 1869. He reported Louisiana 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.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1868
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Guadalupe County
Soloman Scruggs
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Soloman Scruggs
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Guadalupe County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Guadalupe County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Scruggs in Guadalupe County
- Oliver Scruggsborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1867
Scruggses 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. Guadalupe County's entries fill 34 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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