Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Master Jefferson, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Master Jefferson registered to vote in Freestone County on August 16, 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 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Master Jefferson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Master Jefferson
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jefferson in Freestone County
- Andrew Jeffersonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1867
- Andrew Jeffersonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
- Archa Jeffersonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- John Jeffersonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Thomas Jeffersonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1855
Jeffersons 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. Freestone County's entries fill 45 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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