San Augustine County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Calvin Sharp, San Augustine County, Texas, 1867
Calvin Sharp registered to vote in San Augustine County on July 20, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. San Augustine County registered 340 freedmen in 1867, 48% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Calvin Sharp
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- San Augustine County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Calvin Sharp"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sharp in San Augustine County
- Richard Sharpborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1866
- Scipio Sharpborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1866
Sharps 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 3 of the San Augustine County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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