Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim Spencer, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Jim Spencer registered to vote in Austin County on November 20, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 21 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1841 to 1870
Jim Spencer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim Spencer
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Austin County
- 21 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsJim Spencer reported 7 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Spencer in Austin County
- Stephen Spencerborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1834
- Thomas Spencerborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1865
Spencers 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 57 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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