Tarrant County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jack Adams, Tarrant County, Texas, 1867
Jack Adams registered to vote in Tarrant County on August 12, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 5 of them in Tarrant County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Tarrant County registered 212 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Jack Adams
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jack Adams
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Tarrant County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Tarrant County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Tarrant County
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsJack Adams reported 5 years more in Texas than in Tarrant County.
Adamses 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 9 of the Tarrant County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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