Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Miller, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Miller registered to vote in Colorado County on July 17, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 25 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
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 25 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Samuel Miller
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Miller
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 25 years
- Years in the precinct
- 25 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsSamuel Miller reported 5 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Miller in Colorado County
- Allen Millerborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1849
- Peter Millerborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
Millers 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 12 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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