Nueces County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Loyd Folson, Nueces County, Texas, 1867
Loyd Folson registered to vote in Nueces County on June 20, 1867. He reported Maryland as his birthplace and 2 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Nueces County registered 69 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.
- Maryland
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- about 1865
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Loyd Folson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Loyd Folson
- Place of birth
- Maryland
- County of registration
- Nueces County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- June 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in Nueces County
- 3 months
- Years in the precinct
- 3 months
- Years in Texas before Nueces County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearLoyd Folson reported 1 year more in Texas than in Nueces County.
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 Nueces County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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