Matagorda County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Squire Booker, Matagorda County, Texas, 1867
Squire Booker registered to vote in Matagorda County on September 2, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 6 of them in Matagorda County. Matagorda County registered 174 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Squire Booker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Squire Booker
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Matagorda County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- September 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Matagorda County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Years in Texas before Matagorda County
- 8 years
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsSquire Booker reported 8 years more in Texas than in Matagorda County.
Bookers 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 15 of the Matagorda County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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