Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Anthony Foster, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Anthony Foster registered to vote in Colorado County on November 25, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 19 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 19 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Anthony Foster
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Anthony Foster
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 19 years
- Years in the precinct
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Foster in Colorado County
- James Fosterborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1862
- James A. Fosterborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- John Fosterborn in District of Columbia, reached Texas about 1857
- Joseph Fosterborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1837
Fosters 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 61 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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