Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Small, Austin County, Texas, 1868
Joseph Small registered to vote in Austin County on January 31, 1868. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 27 years in Texas, 5 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
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1841
- Reached Texas
- 22 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1841 to 1870
Joseph Small
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Small
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Austin County
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 22 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
22 yearsJoseph Small reported 22 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Small in Austin County
- Austin Smallborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1858
Smalls 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 51 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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