Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wash Ford, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Wash Ford registered to vote in Colorado County on November 26, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Wash Ford
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wash Ford
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Ford in Colorado County
- George Fordborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
- Jim Fordborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1859
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 64 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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