Lavaca County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moses Smith, Lavaca County, Texas, 1867
Moses Smith registered to vote in Lavaca County on July 6, 1867. He reported 8 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Lavaca County registered 435 freedmen in 1867, 29% of its voters.
- 8 years
- In Texas
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
1859186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Lavaca County
Moses Smith
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moses Smith
- County of registration
- Lavaca County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Lavaca County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Lavaca County
- 7 years
- Naturalized, how
- "County Court"
- Naturalized, when
- "July 6th 1867"
- Naturalized, where
- "LaGrange, Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Moses Smith"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsMoses Smith reported 7 years more in Texas than in Lavaca County.
Other freedmen named Smith in Lavaca County
- Mack Smithreached Texas about 1864
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 6 of the Lavaca County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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