Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jackson Burton, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Jackson Burton registered to vote in Colorado County on July 12, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 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 Colorado County
Jackson Burton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jackson Burton
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Burton in Colorado County
- Leonidas Burtonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1862
- William Burtonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1863
Burtons 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 4 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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