Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmund Simpson, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Edmund Simpson registered to vote in Colorado County on July 19, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 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
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Edmund Simpson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmund Simpson
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Simpson in Colorado County
- Washington Simpsonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1846
Simpsons 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 17 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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