Hardin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Foster, Hardin County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Foster registered to vote in Hardin County on July 27, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 8 of them in Hardin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hardin County registered 41 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Joseph Foster
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Foster
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Hardin County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Hardin County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Years in Texas before Hardin County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsJoseph Foster reported 10 years more in Texas than in Hardin County.
Other freedmen named Foster in Hardin County
- September Fosterborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1850
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 2 of the Hardin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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