Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Neil, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Sam Neil registered to vote in Austin County on November 19, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 2 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Sam Neil
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Neil
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Austin County
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearSam Neil reported 1 year more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Neil in Austin County
- Isaak Neilborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1850
Neils 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 56 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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