Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Pains Squire, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Pains Squire registered to vote in Austin County on August 20, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 6 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
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Pains Squire
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Pains Squire
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Austin County
- 6 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsPains Squire reported 4 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Squires 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. Austin County's entries fill 65 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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