Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Harry Jr Taylor, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Harry Jr Taylor registered to vote in Colorado County on November 26, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 12 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
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Harry Jr Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Harry Jr Taylor
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Taylor in Colorado County
- Adam Taylorborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1858
- Benjamin Taylorborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1860
- Frank Taylorborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1859
- Frank Taylorborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1857
- Harry Taylorborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1857
Taylors 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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