Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alex Pettis, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Alex Pettis registered to vote in Colorado County on November 23, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 17 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Alex Pettis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alex Pettis
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 17 years
- Years in the precinct
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Pettises 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 58 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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