Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Eli Porter, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Eli Porter registered to vote in Colorado County on August 7, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 15 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
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Eli Porter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Eli Porter
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsEli Porter reported 13 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Porter in Colorado County
- Manuel Porterborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1857
Porters 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 32 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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