Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Green Jones, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Green Jones registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 1, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Green Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Green Jones
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 1, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 16 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
- Henry Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1833
- Hibbard Jonesborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
- James Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1861
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 5 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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