Williamson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Pen Smith, Williamson County, Texas, 1869
Pen Smith registered to vote in Williamson County on November 20, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Williamson County registered 205 freedmen in 1867, 19% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Pen Smith
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Williamson County
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Naturalized, how
- "Came to this country when small"
- Signature, as written
- "L. Gore"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Smith in Williamson County
- Austin Smithborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1866
- Frank Smithborn in Missouri
- Henry Smithborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1866
Smiths 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 25 of the Williamson County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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