Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Jones, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Robert Jones registered to vote in Colorado County on November 26, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Robert Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Jones
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jones in Colorado County
- Anthony Jonesborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1847
- Burrell Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1841
- Cherry Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
- Daniel Jonesborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1838
- Ephriam Jonesborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1853
Joneses 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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