Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Jefferson, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Jefferson registered to vote in Austin County on July 19, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 18 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Austin County
Thomas Jefferson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Jefferson
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Austin County
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jefferson in Austin County
- Addison Jeffersonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1863
Jeffersons 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 1 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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