Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
David Scott, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
David Scott registered to vote in Freestone County on August 14, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
David Scott
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- David Scott
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Scott in Freestone County
- Albert Scottborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- Joe Scottborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1867
Scotts 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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