Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sephen Fitzgerald, Colorado County, Texas, 1868
Sephen Fitzgerald registered to vote in Colorado County on January 31, 1868. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 24 years in Texas, 24 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 24 years
- In Texas
- 24 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
Sephen Fitzgerald
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sephen Fitzgerald
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 24 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 24 years
- Years in the precinct
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Fitzgeralds 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 47 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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