Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moses Bishop, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Moses Bishop registered to vote in Colorado County on July 13, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 3 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Moses Bishop
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moses Bishop
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsMoses Bishop reported 10 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Bishops 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 6 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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