Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Allen Miller, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Allen Miller registered to vote in Colorado County on July 15, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 13 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
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Allen Miller
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Allen Miller
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsAllen Miller reported 5 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Miller in Colorado County
- Peter Millerborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
- Samuel Millerborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1837
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 9 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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