Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Gray, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Thomas Gray registered to vote in Austin County on November 18, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 4 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
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Thomas Gray
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Gray
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 18, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Austin County
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsThomas Gray reported 2 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Gray in Austin County
- Moses Grayborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- Stephen Grayborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1847
- Thomas Grayborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1860
Grays 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 55 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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