Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sampson Adams, Wood County, Texas, 1867
Sampson Adams registered to vote in Wood County on July 27, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Wood County
Sampson Adams
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sampson Adams
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Wood County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Wood County
- 4 years
- Signature, as written
- "Simpson his X mark Adams"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsSampson Adams reported 4 years more in Texas than in Wood County.
Adamses 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 7 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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