Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Charles Jefferson, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Charles Jefferson registered to vote in Colorado County on November 25, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas, 22 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 22 years
- In Texas
- 22 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Charles Jefferson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Charles Jefferson
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 22 years
- Years in the precinct
- 22 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jefferson in Colorado County
- Adam Jeffersonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1852
- Thomas Jeffersonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1849
Jeffersons 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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