Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
David Jones, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
David Jones registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 9, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Bastrop County
David Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- David Jones
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- 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 8 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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