Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alex Mathias, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Alex Mathias registered to vote in Colorado County on July 19, 1867. He reported Tennessee 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.
- Tennessee
- 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
Alex Mathias
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alex Mathias
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 19, 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 yearsAlex Mathias reported 18 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Mathiases 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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