Jefferson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Samuel Adams, Jefferson County, Texas, 1867

Samuel Adams registered to vote in Jefferson County on July 26, 1867. He reported 15 years in Texas, 7 of them in Jefferson County. Jefferson County registered 117 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Jefferson County, Texas
15 years
In Texas
7 years
In the county
about 1852
Reached Texas
8 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1852 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Jefferson County

Samuel Adams

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Samuel Adams
County of registration
Jefferson County
Precinct
1
Registered
July 26, 1867
Years in Texas
15 years
Years in Jefferson County
7 years
Years in the precinct
7 years
Years in Texas before Jefferson County
8 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Jefferson County highlighted
Jefferson County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

8 years

Samuel Adams reported 8 years more in Texas than in Jefferson County.

Other freedmen named Adams in Jefferson County

Adamses elsewhere in Texas

All 94 freedmen named Adams 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 2 of the Jefferson County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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