Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Squire Rodgers, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Squire Rodgers registered to vote in Colorado County on July 26, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 9 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Squire Rodgers
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Squire Rodgers
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 21'
- Registered
- July 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 9 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsSquire Rodgers reported 6 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Rodgers in Colorado County
- Frank Rodgersborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1855
Rodgerses 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 22 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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