Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Foster, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Foster registered to vote in Freestone County on August 16, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
What the register records
From about 1843 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Joseph Foster
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Foster
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Foster in Freestone County
- Charles Fosterborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- Noah Fosterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- Philips Fosterborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
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 24 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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