Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim May, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Jim May registered to vote in Colorado County on November 19, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 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
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Jim May
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim May
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Mays 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 52 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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