Jasper County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
John Canley, Jasper County, Texas, 1869
John Canley registered to vote in Jasper County on November 25, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Jasper County registered 310 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- John Canley
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Jasper County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Signature, as written
- "John Cauley"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Canleys 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 18 of the Jasper County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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