Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abner Mills, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Abner Mills registered to vote in Colorado County on August 13, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 1 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
Abner Mills
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abner Mills
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsAbner Mills reported 8 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Mills in Colorado County
- Peter Millsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1861
Millses 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 37 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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