Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Jefferson, Wood County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Jefferson registered to vote in Wood County on August 24, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Wood County. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Wood County
Thomas Jefferson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Jefferson
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 12
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Wood County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Signature, as written
- "Thomas Jefferson"
Jeffersons 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 21 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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