Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert McGreer, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Robert McGreer registered to vote in Colorado County on August 22, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 12 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Robert McGreer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert McGreer
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsRobert McGreer reported 2 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
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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