Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Claiborne King, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Claiborne King registered to vote in Colorado County on August 7, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 20 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.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 18 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Claiborne King
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Claiborne King
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
18 yearsClaiborne King reported 18 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named King in Colorado County
- Anthony Kingborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
Kings elsewhere in Texas
Variations of King
- Kinching 6
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 31 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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