Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jones Moffett, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Jones Moffett registered to vote in Freestone County on August 26, 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 1865
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Jones Moffett
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jones Moffett
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 26, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Moffett in Freestone County
- Boney Moffettborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Paul Moffettborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1853
- Peter Moffettborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1853
- Washington Moffettborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
Moffetts 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 30 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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