Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph McJenkins, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Joseph McJenkins registered to vote in Freestone County on November 20, 1869. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Joseph McJenkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph McJenkins
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named McJenkins in Freestone County
- Abram McJenkinsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1863
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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