Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jacob Foster, Austin County, Texas, 1868
Jacob Foster registered to vote in Austin County on January 30, 1868. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Austin County
Jacob Foster
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jacob Foster
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- January 30, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Austin County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Foster in Austin County
- Felix Fosterborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1861
- Frank Fosterborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1834
- Richard Fosterborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1839
Fosters 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 49 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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