Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samual Mathews, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Samual Mathews registered to vote in Freestone County on August 3, 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
Samual Mathews
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samual Mathews
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Mathews in Freestone County
- Benjamin Mathewsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1867
- Harp Mathewsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
Mathewses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Mathews
- Matthews 20
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 15 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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