Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Jefferson, Davis County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Jefferson registered to vote in Davis County on August 3, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Davis County
Thomas Jefferson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Jefferson
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 months
- Years in Davis County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jefferson in Davis County
- Neption Jeffersonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1853
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 15 of the Davis County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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