Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Squire Jones, Davis County, Texas, 1867
Squire Jones registered to vote in Davis County on August 22, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Davis County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Davis County
Squire Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Squire Jones
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 4
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Davis County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jones in Davis County
- Alford Jonesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- Charles Jonesborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1853
- Henry Jonesborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1866
- Henry Jonesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1857
- John Jonesborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1863
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. Davis County's entries fill 67 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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