Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gaston Hall, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Gaston Hall registered to vote in Colorado County on November 16, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 2 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
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Gaston Hall
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gaston Hall
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearGaston Hall reported 1 year more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Hall in Colorado County
- William Hallborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1863
Halls 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 47 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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