Galveston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Johns John, Galveston County, Texas, 1867
Johns John registered to vote in Galveston County on June 11, 1867. He reported 25 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Galveston County registered 1,179 freedmen in 1867, 39% of its voters.
- 25 years
- In Texas
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
1842186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Galveston County
Johns John
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Johns John
- County of registration
- Galveston County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- June 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Galveston County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Galveston County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsJohns John reported 24 years more in Texas than in Galveston County.
Other freedmen named John in Galveston County
Johns elsewhere in Texas
Variations of John
- Johns 25
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 13 of the Galveston County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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