Tarrant County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Andrew Coleman, Tarrant County, Texas, 1867
Andrew Coleman registered to vote in Tarrant County on August 28, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Tarrant County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Tarrant County registered 212 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Tarrant County
Andrew Coleman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Andrew Coleman
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Tarrant County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- August 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Tarrant County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Coleman in Tarrant County
- Rufus Colemanborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1855
- Warner Colemanborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1854
Colemans 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 18 of the Tarrant County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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