Edwards County, Texas Slave Records

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

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Edwards County Historical Records

Joseph Dabney

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

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

Charlotte Tyler

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

Enumerated under slaveholder Cary in Edwards County Schedule 2 (Slave Inhabitants). Age recorded as 61.

Tabitha Hammond

Manumission Deed (1840)
Location: Edwards County, Texas

Deed of emancipation granted by Goode. Stated freedom to take effect on January 1, 1840.