Liberty County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Petter Cole, Liberty County, Texas, 1867
Petter Cole registered to vote in Liberty County on August 29, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Liberty County registered 335 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Petter Cole
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Liberty County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 29, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Arthur, his x mark, Cole"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cole in Liberty County
- Arron Coleborn in Louisiana
- Elick Coleborn in Alabama
- George Coleborn in Alabama
- Jackson Coleborn in South Carolina
Coles 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 11 of the Liberty County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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