Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Phillipp Mathews, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Phillipp Mathews registered to vote in Colorado County on August 15, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 3 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
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- 18 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Phillipp Mathews
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Phillipp Mathews
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
18 yearsPhillipp Mathews reported 18 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Mathews in Colorado County
- Dick Mathewsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- James Mathewsborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1861
- Mason Mathewsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1846
- Peter Mathewsborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1834
Mathewses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Mathews
- Matthews 20
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 40 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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