Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Harp Mathews, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Harp Mathews registered to vote in Freestone County on July 22, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Harp Mathews
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Harp Mathews
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- July 22, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Mathews in Freestone County
- Benjamin Mathewsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1867
- Samual Mathewsborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
Mathewses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Mathews
- Matthews 20
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 4 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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