Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Mathews, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Benjamin Mathews registered to vote in Freestone County on July 25, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Benjamin Mathews
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Mathews
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- July 25, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Mathews in Freestone County
- Harp Mathewsborn in Alabama, 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 7 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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