Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jeremiah Pillow, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Jeremiah Pillow registered to vote in Colorado County on August 15, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 35 years in Texas, 2 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 35 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1832
- Reached Texas
- 33 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1832 to 1870
Jeremiah Pillow
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jeremiah Pillow
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 35 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 33 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
33 yearsJeremiah Pillow reported 33 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
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 42 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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