Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gustavus Shaw, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Gustavus Shaw registered to vote in Colorado County on August 15, 1867. He reported District of Columbia 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.
- District of Columbia
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Gustavus Shaw
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gustavus Shaw
- Place of birth
- District of Columbia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 15, 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 Shaw in Colorado County
- Neil Shawborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1854
- Samuel Shawborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1859
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. It sits on page 39 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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