Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Mac Oakes, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Mac Oakes registered to vote in Colorado County on August 27, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 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
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Mac Oakes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Mac Oakes
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Oakes in Colorado County
- James Oakesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
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 45 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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