Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henry Clinton, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Henry Clinton registered to vote in Colorado County on November 25, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1865
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Henry Clinton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henry Clinton
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Clinton in Colorado County
- John Clintonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1864
Clintons 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 62 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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