Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moses Peterson, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Moses Peterson registered to vote in Colorado County on August 15, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 12 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.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Moses Peterson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moses Peterson
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsMoses Peterson reported 9 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Peterson in Colorado County
- Gabriel Petersonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1862
Petersons elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Peterson
- Peters 13
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 41 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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