Angelina County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wright Taylor, Angelina County, Texas, 1867
Wright Taylor registered to vote in Angelina County on August 17, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 8 of them in Angelina County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Wright Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wright Taylor
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Angelina County
- Precinct
- Homer
- Registered
- August 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Angelina County
- 8 years
- Years in Texas before Angelina County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsWright Taylor reported 10 years more in Texas than in Angelina County.
Other freedmen named Taylor in Angelina County
- William Taylorborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
Taylors 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 4 of the Angelina County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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