Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jack Certain, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Jack Certain registered to vote in Colorado County on August 9, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 12 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.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Jack Certain
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jack Certain
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsJack Certain reported 9 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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