Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Daniel Matthews, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Daniel Matthews registered to vote in Colorado County on November 16, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 18 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
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Daniel Matthews
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Daniel Matthews
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 18 years
- Years in the precinct
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Matthews in Colorado County
- Robert Matthewsborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1851
Matthewses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Matthews
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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