Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Shaw, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Samuel Shaw registered to vote in Colorado County on November 20, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 1 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Samuel Shaw
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Shaw
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsSamuel Shaw reported 9 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Shaw in Colorado County
- Gustavus Shawborn in District of Columbia, reached Texas about 1863
- Neil Shawborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1854
Shaws 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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