Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Taylor Blinnson, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Taylor Blinnson registered to vote in Austin County on November 24, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Austin County
Taylor Blinnson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Taylor Blinnson
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Austin County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
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. Austin County's entries fill 65 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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