Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Haywood, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Robert Haywood registered to vote in Colorado County on August 14, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 17 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.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Robert Haywood
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Haywood
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsRobert Haywood reported 15 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Haywood in Colorado County
- Hines Haywoodborn in New York, reached Texas about 1853
- Lee Haywoodborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Thomas Haywoodborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1861
Haywoods 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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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