Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Solomon Blake, Austin County, Texas, 1868
Solomon Blake registered to vote in Austin County on January 27, 1868. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Austin County
Solomon Blake
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Solomon Blake
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- January 27, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Austin County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Blake in Austin County
- Jesse Blakeborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
- Robert Blakeborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1861
- Robert Blakeborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
Blakes 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 46 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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