Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Pleasant Sayle, Hunt County, Texas, 1867
Pleasant Sayle registered to vote in Hunt County on July 30, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Hunt County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Hunt County
Pleasant Sayle
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Pleasant Sayle
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hunt County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Hunt County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Signature, as written
- "Pleasant Gayle"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sayle in Hunt County
- Philip Sayleborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1856
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 11 of the Hunt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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