Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wesley Mingo, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Wesley Mingo registered to vote in Colorado County on August 2, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 6 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Wesley Mingo
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wesley (recorded as Wingo Westley) Mingo
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 42'
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsWesley (recorded as Wingo Westley) Mingo reported 24 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Mingo in Colorado County
- William Mingoborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1861
Mingos 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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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