Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Martin Carter, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Martin Carter registered to vote in Freestone County on August 16, 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 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Martin Carter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Martin Carter
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Carter in Freestone County
- Adam Carterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- Adam Carterborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Allen Carterborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1867
- Anderson Carterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- Andrew Carterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
Carters 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 25 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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