Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Spencer, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Thomas Spencer registered to vote in Austin County on November 16, 1869. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1865
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Austin County
Thomas Spencer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Spencer
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Austin County
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Spencer in Austin County
- Jim Spencerborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1841
- Stephen Spencerborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1834
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 53 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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