Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Rial Sampson, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Rial Sampson registered to vote in Bexar County on August 9, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 27 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Rial Sampson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Rial Sampson
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 2 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
27 yearsRial Sampson reported 27 years more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Other freedmen named Sampson in Bexar County
- Jae Sampsonborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1855
Sampsons 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 33 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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