Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Hays, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Sam Hays registered to vote in Colorado County on July 17, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 3 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Sam Hays
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Hays
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsSam Hays reported 9 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Hays in Colorado County
- David Haysborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1856
- Turner Haysborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1859
Hayses 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 11 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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