Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Moses, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Sam Moses registered to vote in Austin County on November 20, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Austin County
Sam Moses
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Moses
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Austin County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Moses in Austin County
- David Mosesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1865
- Monroe Mosesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1859
Moseses 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 58 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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