Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sammuel Adams, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Sammuel Adams registered to vote in Bexar County on July 16, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Sammuel Adams
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sammuel Adams
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Adams in Bexar County
- James Adamsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1853
- John Adamsborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1865
Adamses 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 23 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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