Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lake Jones, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Lake Jones registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 22, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 18 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Brazoria County
Lake Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lake Jones
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jones in Brazoria County
- David Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1849
- Edmound Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1850
- Green Jonesborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
- Henry Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1833
- Hibbard Jonesborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
Joneses 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 26 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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