Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henry Andrews, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Henry Andrews registered to vote in Austin County on August 29, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 29 years in Texas, 9 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 29 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1838 to 1870
Henry Andrews
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henry Andrews
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 29 years
- Years in Austin County
- 9 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsHenry Andrews reported 20 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Andrews in Austin County
- Richard Andrewsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1839
Andrewses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Andrews
- Andrew 7
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 38 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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