Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Philips Foster, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Philips Foster registered to vote in Freestone County on November 16, 1869. 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 1855
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Philips Foster
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Philips Foster
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Foster in Freestone County
- Charles Fosterborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- Joseph Fosterborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1843
- Noah Fosterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
Fosters 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 32 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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