Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Bazil Jackson, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Bazil Jackson registered to vote in Colorado County on August 15, 1867. He reported Maryland as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Maryland
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Bazil Jackson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Bazil Jackson
- Place of birth
- Maryland
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jackson in Colorado County
- A. Jacksonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1862
- Andrew Jacksonborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1854
- Andrew Jacksonborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1863
- Andrew Jacksonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
- Andrew Jacksonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1852
Jacksons 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 41 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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