Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Isaac Payne, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Isaac Payne registered to vote in Colorado County on July 18, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 6 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.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Isaac Payne
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Isaac Payne
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 18, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsIsaac Payne reported 5 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Payne in Colorado County
- William Payneborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1852
Paynes 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 15 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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