Comanche County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moses Jones, Comanche County, Texas, 1867
Moses Jones registered to vote in Comanche County on August 9, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Comanche County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Comanche County registered 7 freedmen in 1867, 4% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Comanche County
Moses Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moses Jones
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Comanche County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Comanche County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jones in Comanche County
- Moses Jonesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1864
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 1 of the Comanche County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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