Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert McGowan, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Robert McGowan registered to vote in Freestone County on November 19, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Robert McGowan
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert McGowan
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
McGowans 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 36 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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