Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Alston, Davis County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Alston registered to vote in Davis County on August 2, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Samuel Alston
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Alston
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Davis County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Davis County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsSamuel Alston reported 3 years more in Texas than in Davis County.
Alstons 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. Davis County's entries fill 67 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
African American genealogy in Davis County, Texas
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