Jefferson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Elisha Adams, Jefferson County, Texas, 1867

Elisha Adams registered to vote in Jefferson County on July 22, 1867. He reported 18 years in Texas. Jefferson County registered 117 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Jefferson County, Texas
18 years
In Texas
about 1849
Reached Texas
17 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1849 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Jefferson County

Elisha Adams

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Elisha Adams
County of registration
Jefferson County
Precinct
1
Registered
July 22, 1867
Years in Texas
18 years
Years in Jefferson County
10 months
Years in the precinct
10 months
Years in Texas before Jefferson County
17 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Jefferson County highlighted
Jefferson County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

17 years

Elisha Adams reported 17 years more in Texas than in Jefferson County.

Other freedmen named Adams in Jefferson County

Adamses elsewhere in Texas

All 94 freedmen named Adams 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 Jefferson County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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