Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Sam Houston, Hunt County, Texas, 1867

Sam Houston registered to vote in Hunt County. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 8 of them in Hunt County. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.

Born in Arkansas, registered in Hunt County, Texas

Arkansas
Birthplace: 8 years
In Texas: 8 years
In the county

What the register records

Name: Sam Houston
Place of birth: Arkansas
County of registration: Hunt County
Precinct: 11
Years in Texas: 8 years
Years in Hunt County: 8 years
Years in the precinct: 8 years

Hunt County on the 1870 county map

Houstons elsewhere in Texas

All 53 freedmen named Houston 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. Hunt County's entries fill 31 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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