Williamson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Sansom, Williamson County, Texas, 1869
Thomas Sansom registered to vote in Williamson County on November 19, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Williamson County registered 205 freedmen in 1867, 19% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Sansom
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Williamson County
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Signature, as written
- "Thomas his x mark Sansom"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sansom in Williamson County
- Monroe Sansomborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1866
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 24 of the Williamson County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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