Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Allen, Hunt County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Allen registered to vote in Hunt County on August 5, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Samuel Allen
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Allen
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Hunt County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Hunt County
- 3 months
- Years in the precinct
- 3 months
- Years in Texas before Hunt County
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "Samuel Allen"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsSamuel Allen reported 3 years more in Texas than in Hunt County.
Other freedmen named Allen in Hunt County
- Henry Allenborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1862
Allens 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 13 of the Hunt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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