Jasper County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jack Brown, Jasper County, Texas, 1867
Jack Brown registered to vote in Jasper County on August 24, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Jasper County registered 310 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jack Brown
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Jasper County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Jack his X mark Brown"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Brown in Jasper County
- A.K. Brownborn in Maryland
- Elijah Brownborn in Tennessee
Browns 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 9 of the Jasper County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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