Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thornton Gaines, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Thornton Gaines registered to vote in Colorado County on August 1, 1867. He reported Tennessee 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.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Thornton Gaines
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thornton Gaines
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 42'
- Registered
- August 1, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Gaineses 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 26 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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