Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sammuel Sall, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Sammuel Sall registered to vote in Austin County on July 21, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 1 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
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Sammuel Sall
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sammuel Sall
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- July 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Austin County
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsSammuel Sall reported 12 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
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. Austin County's entries fill 65 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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