Dallas County, Texas Slave Records

Courthouse probate inventories, deed book bills of sale, and 1850/1860 Federal Census Slave Schedules for Dallas County, Texas.

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Dallas County Historical Records

Edward Preston

1860 Slave Schedule Metadata (1860)
Location: Dallas County, Texas

Enumerated under slaveholder Wood in Dallas County Schedule 2 (Slave Inhabitants). Age recorded as 19.

Emily Williams

1850 Slave Schedule Metadata (1850)
Location: Dallas County, Texas

Enumerated under slaveholder Dandridge in Dallas County Schedule 2 (Slave Inhabitants). Age recorded as 48.

Henry Logan

Probate Inventory (1843)
Location: Dallas County, Texas

Appraised in estate inventory of Evans plantation, evaluated at $1044. Listed alongside family members in probate court ledger.