Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Foster, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Foster registered to vote in Colorado County on August 7, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 1 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 29 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Joseph Foster
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Foster
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 29 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
29 yearsJoseph Foster reported 29 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Foster in Colorado County
- Anthony Fosterborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1850
- 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
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 32 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
African American genealogy in Colorado County, Texas
Colorado County freedmen and genealogyEvery freedman who registered in Colorado CountyThe Foster name in TexasBorn in TennesseeSearch Colorado County by name