Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Basil Black, Cooke County, Texas, 1867
Basil Black registered to vote in Cooke County on July 23, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Cooke County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Cooke County registered 89 freedmen in 1867, 11% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Cooke County
Basil Black
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Basil Black
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Cooke County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Black in Cooke County
- Benjamin Blackborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Peter Blackborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1858
Blacks 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 2 of the Cooke County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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