Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nelson Jones, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Nelson Jones registered to vote in Freestone County on July 30, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Nelson Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nelson Jones
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jones in Freestone County
- Addison Jonesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- Claborn Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1867
- Edward Jonesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1861
- Ellridge Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1867
- George Jonesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
Joneses 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 12 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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