Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Courtney, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Robert Courtney registered to vote in Colorado County on July 11, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Robert Courtney
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Courtney
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Courtney in Colorado County
- Andrew Courtneyborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1863
Courtneys 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 1 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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