Nueces County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Eustace Jackson, Nueces County, Texas, 1869
Eustace Jackson registered to vote in Nueces County on November 23, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 1 of them in Nueces County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Nueces County registered 69 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Eustace Jackson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Eustace Jackson
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Nueces County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Nueces County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Nueces County
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsEustace Jackson reported 14 years more in Texas than in Nueces County.
Other freedmen named Jackson in Nueces County
- Allen Jacksonborn in South Carolina
- John Jacksonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1834
Jacksons 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 11 of the Nueces County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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