Matagorda County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Louis Jones, Matagorda County, Texas, 1868
Louis Jones registered to vote in Matagorda County on January 31, 1868. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 11 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Matagorda County registered 174 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 11 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Louis Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Louis Jones
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Matagorda County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 11 years
- Years in Matagorda County
- 3 months
- Years in the precinct
- 3 months
- Years in Texas before Matagorda County
- 10 years
- Signature, as written
- "L. D. Patton"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsLouis Jones reported 10 years more in Texas than in Matagorda County.
Other freedmen named Jones in Matagorda County
- David Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1861
- George C. Jonesborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- Guy Jonesborn in Florida, reached Texas about 1860
- Isaiah Jonesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1850
- Limas Jonesborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1865
Joneses 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 17 of the Matagorda County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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