Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Edmund Harvey, Colorado County, Texas, 1867

Edmund Harvey registered to vote in Colorado County on August 2, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Missouri and Texas marked
Born in Missouri, registered in Colorado County, Texas
Missouri
Birthplace
16 years
In Texas
16 years
In the county
about 1851
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1851 to 1870

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In Colorado County

Edmund Harvey

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Edmund Harvey
Place of birth
Missouri
County of registration
Colorado County
Precinct
96° 42'
Registered
August 2, 1867
Years in Texas
16 years
Years in Colorado County
16 years
Years in the precinct
16 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Colorado County highlighted
Colorado County on the 1870 county map

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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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