Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Tony Morgan, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Tony Morgan registered to vote in Colorado County on November 20, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 3 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
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Tony Morgan
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Tony Morgan
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsTony Morgan reported 12 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Morgan in Colorado County
- William Morganborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1856
Morgans 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 55 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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