Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nelson Pierce, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Nelson Pierce registered to vote in Colorado County on July 19, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 3 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.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Nelson Pierce
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nelson Pierce
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Pierces 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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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