Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Douglas, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Benjamin Douglas registered to vote in Colorado County on August 15, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 7 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Benjamin Douglas
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Douglas
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsBenjamin Douglas reported 10 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Douglas in Colorado County
- Butcher Douglasborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
Douglases elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Douglas
- Douglass 27
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 41 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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