Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim Ford, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Jim Ford registered to vote in Colorado County on November 23, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Jim Ford
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim Ford
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Ford in Colorado County
- George Fordborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
- Wash Fordborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1849
Fords 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 58 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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