Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joe Scott, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Joe Scott registered to vote in Freestone County on August 6, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Joe Scott
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joe Scott
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 6, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Scott in Freestone County
- Albert Scottborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- David Scottborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1860
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. It sits on page 17 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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