Matagorda County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dick Cook, Matagorda County, Texas, 1867
Dick Cook registered to vote in Matagorda County on August 22, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 28 of them in Matagorda County. Matagorda County registered 174 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 28 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
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In Matagorda County
Dick Cook
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dick Cook
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Matagorda County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Matagorda County
- 28 years
- Years in the precinct
- 28 months
Other freedmen named Cook in Matagorda County
- Jesse Cookborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1845
Cooks 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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