Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Griffin Redick, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Griffin Redick registered to vote in Colorado County on August 19, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 7 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
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Griffin Redick
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Griffin Redick
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsGriffin Redick reported 8 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Redick in Colorado County
- Nelson Redickborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
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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