Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sammuel Gordon, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Sammuel Gordon registered to vote in Austin County on July 24, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Austin County
Sammuel Gordon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sammuel Gordon
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- July 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Gordon in Austin County
- Bram Gordonborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- Murphy Gordonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
- Thomas Gordonborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1862
Gordons 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 7 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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