Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Reuben Blackman, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Reuben Blackman registered to vote in Colorado County on July 20, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Reuben Blackman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Reuben Blackman
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Blackmans 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 20 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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