Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sammel Lenard, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Sammel Lenard registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 9, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 27 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Sammel Lenard
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sammel Lenard
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
27 yearsSammel Lenard reported 27 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Lenard in Bastrop County
- Robert Lenardborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
- Sammel Lenardborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1837
Lenards 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 8 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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