Jefferson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Samuel Adams, Jefferson County, Texas, 1869

Samuel Adams registered to vote in Jefferson County on November 25, 1869. He reported 10 years in Texas, 10 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
10 years
In Texas
10 years
In the county
about 1859
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1859 to 1870

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In Jefferson County

Samuel Adams

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Samuel Adams
County of registration
Jefferson County
Precinct
5
Registered
November 25, 1869
Years in Texas
10 years
Years in Jefferson County
10 years
Years in the precinct
4 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Jefferson County highlighted
Jefferson County on the 1870 county map

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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