Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Elijah Jamison, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Elijah Jamison registered to vote in Colorado County on July 18, 1867. He reported Virginia 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.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Elijah Jamison
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Elijah Jamison
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 18, 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 Jamison in Colorado County
- Albert Jamisonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1840
Jamisons 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 13 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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