Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jasper Clayton, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Jasper Clayton registered to vote in Colorado County on July 12, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 28 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 28 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Jasper Clayton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jasper Clayton
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 28 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Claytons 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 3 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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