Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jordan Jones, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Jordan Jones registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 4, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Bastrop County
Jordan Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jordan Jones
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 4, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Other freedmen named Jones in Bastrop County
- Alfred Jonesborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1843
- Charles Jonesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1855
- Daniel Jonesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1861
- Daniel Jonesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
- Daniel Jonesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1859
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. It sits on page 1 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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