Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Seneca Day, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Seneca Day registered to vote in Austin County on August 19, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 5 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Seneca Day
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Seneca Day
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Austin County
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsSeneca Day reported 9 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Day in Austin County
- Hannibal Dayborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1854
- William Dayborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1853
Days 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 26 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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