Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Jones, Davis County, Texas, 1869
Thomas Jones registered to vote in Davis County on November 24, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Davis County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Davis County
Thomas Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Jones
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Davis County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 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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