Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jefferson Busby, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Jefferson Busby registered to vote in Freestone County on August 16, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Jefferson Busby
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jefferson Busby
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Busby in Freestone County
- George Busbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1852
- Horace Busbyborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
- Ralph Busbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1849
- Robert Busbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1849
Busbys 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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