Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Washington Howell, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Washington Howell registered to vote in Colorado County on July 20, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 28 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
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 28 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Washington Howell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Washington Howell
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 28 years
- Years in the precinct
- 28 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Howell in Colorado County
- Bram Howellborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1842
Howells 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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