Jefferson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

James McQueen, Jefferson County, Texas, 1869

James McQueen registered to vote in Jefferson County on November 20, 1869. He reported 21 years in Texas, 2 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
21 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1848
Reached Texas
19 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1848 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Jefferson County

James McQueen

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
James McQueen
County of registration
Jefferson County
Precinct
1
Registered
November 20, 1869
Years in Texas
21 years
Years in Jefferson County
2 years
Years in the precinct
2 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

James McQueen reported 19 years more in Texas than 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. Jefferson County's entries fill 8 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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