Newton County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wesley McQueen, Newton County, Texas, 1867
Wesley McQueen registered to vote in Newton County on September 9, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Newton County registered 162 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Newton County
Wesley McQueen
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wesley McQueen
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Newton County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- September 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 months
- Years in Newton County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Signature, as written
- "Wesley his x mark Mc Queen"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named McQueen in Newton County
- Alford McQueenborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1847
- Henry McQueenborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1846
McQueens 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 4 of the Newton County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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