Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Glenn, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Sam Glenn registered to vote in Colorado County on July 19, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 9 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Sam Glenn
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Glenn
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 9 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearSam Glenn reported 1 year more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Glenn in Colorado County
- Thomas Glennborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1853
Glenns 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 16 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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