Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Randall Fisher, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Randall Fisher registered to vote in Colorado County on August 2, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Randall Fisher
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Randall Fisher
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 42'
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Fisher in Colorado County
- Samuel Fisherborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1832
Fishers 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 28 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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