Lavaca County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Holt, Lavaca County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Holt registered to vote in Lavaca County on July 1, 1867. He reported 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored - Removed to Colorado County" beside his name. Lavaca County registered 435 freedmen in 1867, 29% of its voters.
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Lavaca County
Samuel Holt
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Holt
- County of registration
- Lavaca County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 1, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Lavaca County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Lavaca County
- 11 years
- Signature, as written
- "Samuel Scott"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored - Removed to Colorado County"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsSamuel Holt reported 11 years more in Texas than in Lavaca County.
Other freedmen named Holt in Lavaca County
- Elsner Holtreached Texas about 1853
Holts 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 1 of the Lavaca County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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