Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Aaron Martin, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Aaron Martin registered to vote in Austin County on July 30, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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In Austin County
Aaron Martin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Aaron Martin
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Martin in Austin County
- Abraham Martinborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
Martins 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 13 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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