Matagorda County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joshua Ligins, Matagorda County, Texas, 1867
Joshua Ligins registered to vote in Matagorda County on August 21, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 3 of them in Matagorda County. Matagorda County registered 174 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Joshua Ligins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joshua Ligins
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Matagorda County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Matagorda County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 months
- Years in Texas before Matagorda County
- 15 years
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsJoshua Ligins reported 15 years more in Texas than in Matagorda County.
Other freedmen named Ligins in Matagorda County
- Sandford Liginsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1853
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 10 of the Matagorda County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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