Leon County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Allen Jackson, Leon County, Texas, 1869
Allen Jackson registered to vote in Leon County on November 16, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Leon County registered 675 freedmen in 1867, 45% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Allen Jackson
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Leon County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in the precinct
- 9 months
- Naturalized, where
- "Allen Jackson"
- Signature, as written
- "Cold 1021"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jackson in Leon County
- Allen Jacksonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1862
- Andrew Jacksonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1858
- Anthony Jacksonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1859
- George Jacksonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1864
- Henry Jacksonborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1867
Jacksons 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 28 of the Leon County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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