Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Leonidas Burton, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Leonidas Burton registered to vote in Colorado County on July 18, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 5 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Leonidas Burton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Leonidas Burton
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 18, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Burton in Colorado County
- Jackson Burtonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1847
- 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 14 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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