Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Martin Long, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Martin Long registered to vote in Colorado County on August 12, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 35 years in Texas, 35 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 35 years
- In Texas
- 35 years
- In the county
- about 1832
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1832 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Martin Long
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Martin Long
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 35 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 35 years
- Years in the precinct
- 35 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Long in Colorado County
- Anthony Longborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Richard Longborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
Longs 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 35 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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