Jack County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jack Blackwell, Jack County, Texas, 1869
Jack Blackwell registered to vote in Jack County on November 23, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Jack County registered 4 freedmen in 1867, 2% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Jack Blackwell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jack Blackwell
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Jack County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Jack County
- 7 months
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Years in Texas before Jack County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsJack Blackwell reported 19 years more in Texas than in Jack County.
Blackwells 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 4 of the Jack County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
African American genealogy in Jack County, Texas
Jack County freedmen and genealogyEvery freedman who registered in Jack CountyThe Blackwell name in TexasBorn in TennesseeSearch Jack County by name