Matagorda County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ransom Pea, Matagorda County, Texas, 1867
Ransom Pea registered to vote in Matagorda County on August 21, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 2 of them in Matagorda County. Matagorda County registered 174 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Ransom Pea
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ransom Pea
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Matagorda County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Matagorda County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Matagorda County
- 19 years
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsRansom Pea reported 19 years more in Texas than in Matagorda County.
Other freedmen named Pea in Matagorda County
- Isaac Peaborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1835
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 11 of the Matagorda County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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