Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Snyder Kennedy, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Snyder Kennedy registered to vote in Dallas County on August 21, 1867. He reported Illinois as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Dallas County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Illinois
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Dallas County
Snyder Kennedy
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Snyder Kennedy
- Place of birth
- Illinois
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Kennedy in Dallas County
- Nick Kennedyborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1858
Kennedys 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. Dallas County's entries fill 44 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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