Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Bennett Reed, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Bennett Reed registered to vote in Colorado County on August 14, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Bennett Reed
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Bennett Reed
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Reed in Colorado County
- Lewis Reedborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- Thomas Reedborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1863
Reeds 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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