Jefferson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Jack Blanchett, Jefferson County, Texas, 1867

Jack Blanchett registered to vote in Jefferson County on July 23, 1867. He reported 40 years in Texas, 21 of them in Jefferson County. 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
40 years
In Texas
21 years
In the county
about 1827
Reached Texas
19 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1827 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Jefferson County

Jack Blanchett

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Jack Blanchett
County of registration
Jefferson County
Precinct
1
Registered
July 23, 1867
Years in Texas
40 years
Years in Jefferson County
21 years
Years in the precinct
21 years
Years in Texas before Jefferson County
19 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Jefferson County highlighted
Jefferson County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

19 years

Jack Blanchett reported 19 years more in Texas than in Jefferson County.

Other freedmen named Blanchett in Jefferson County

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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