Gonzales County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Colonel Cook, Gonzales County, Texas, 1867
Colonel Cook registered to vote in Gonzales County on July 18, 1867. He reported 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Gonzales County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Gonzales County registered 739 freedmen in 1867, 41% of its voters.
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Gonzales County
Colonel Cook
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Colonel Cook
- County of registration
- Gonzales County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 18, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Gonzales County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cook in Gonzales County
- Ned Cookreached Texas about 1849
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 Gonzales County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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