Matagorda County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alfred White, Matagorda County, Texas, 1867
Alfred White registered to vote in Matagorda County on August 22, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Matagorda County. Matagorda County registered 174 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Matagorda County
Alfred White
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alfred White
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Matagorda County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Matagorda County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Annexation of Tex to U.S."
- Signature, as written
- "William Elliott"
Other freedmen named White in Matagorda County
- Austin Whiteborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1847
- J.K. Whiteborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1859
- Jesse Bob Whiteborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- Mingo Whiteborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1848
- Sam Whiteborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
Whites 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 12 of the Matagorda County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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