Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Daniel Jones, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Daniel Jones registered to vote in Colorado County on November 20, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 31 years in Texas, 2 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 31 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1838
- Reached Texas
- 29 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1838 to 1870
Daniel Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Daniel Jones
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 31 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 29 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
29 yearsDaniel Jones reported 29 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
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
- Ephriam Jonesborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1853
- Frank Jonesborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1862
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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