Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Jones, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Jones registered to vote in Austin County on July 30, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 7 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Thomas Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Jones
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Austin County
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsThomas Jones reported 3 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Jones in Austin County
- Alfred Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1854
- Charles Jonesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- Cuffy Jonesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1860
- Greene Jonesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1864
- James Jonesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
Joneses 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 12 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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