Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Holt, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Sam Holt registered to vote in Colorado County on November 20, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 12 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
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Sam Holt
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Holt
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Holt in Colorado County
- Jessie Holtborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1853
Holts 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 54 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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