Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
B Henderson, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
B Henderson registered to vote in Colorado County on August 9, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 5 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
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Colorado County
B Henderson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- B Henderson
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Henderson in Colorado County
- Ben Hendersonborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1862
- Captain Hendersonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1847
- Cherry Hendersonborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1852
- George Hendersonborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Henry Hendersonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1861
Hendersons 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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