Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Trim Span, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Trim Span registered to vote in Colorado County on August 2, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Trim Span
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Trim Span
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 42'
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Spans 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 28 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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