Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Hicks, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Benjamin Hicks registered to vote in Colorado County on July 15, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 13 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Benjamin Hicks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Hicks
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hicks in Colorado County
- Solomon Hicksborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1859
Hickses 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 8 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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