Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Mack Read, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Mack Read registered to vote in Freestone County on August 14, 1867. 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
Mack Read
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Mack Read
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Read in Freestone County
- Granderson Readborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1862
Reads 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 21 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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