Galveston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Squire Jones, Galveston County, Texas, 1867

Squire Jones registered to vote in Galveston County on June 12 1867. He reported 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Galveston County registered 1,179 freedmen in 1867, 39% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Galveston County, Texas
4 years
In Texas
about 1863
Reached Texas
3 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Galveston County

Squire Jones

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Squire Jones
County of registration
Galveston County
Precinct
4
Registered
June 12 1867
Years in Texas
4 years
Years in Galveston County
6 months
Years in the precinct
1 month
Years in Texas before Galveston County
3 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Galveston County highlighted
Galveston County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

3 years

Squire Jones reported 3 years more in Texas than in Galveston County.

Other freedmen named Jones in Galveston County

Joneses elsewhere in Texas

All 453 freedmen named Jones 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 14 of the Galveston County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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