Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alfred Taylor, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Alfred Taylor registered to vote in Dallas County on September 23, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 17 of them in Dallas County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
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In Dallas County
Alfred Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alfred Taylor
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- September 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 17 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Taylor in Dallas County
- Urm. Taylorborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1847
Taylors 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 27 of the Dallas County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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