Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jos Sowel, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Jos Sowel registered to vote in Colorado County on August 9, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Jos Sowel
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jos Sowel
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 9, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Sowels 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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