Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Taylor, Wood County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Taylor registered to vote in Wood County on August 17, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 3 of them in Wood County. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Wood County
Samuel Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Taylor
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 9
- Registered
- August 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Wood County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Wood County
- 13 years
- Signature, as written
- "Samuel his X mark Taylor"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsSamuel Taylor reported 13 years more in Texas than in Wood County.
Other freedmen named Taylor in Wood County
- Albert Taylorborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
- Dennis Taylorborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
- Harry Taylorborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1858
- Lyman Taylorborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1857
Taylors 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 19 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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