Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jackson Williams, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Jackson Williams registered to vote in Freestone County on July 29, 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
Jackson Williams
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jackson Williams
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Williams in Freestone County
- Alexander Williamsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- Alexander Williamsborn in Florida, reached Texas about 1849
- Baltimor Williamsborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- Dennis Williamsborn in Florida, reached Texas about 1849
- Franklin Williamsborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
Williamses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Williams
- Williamson 30
- William 16
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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