Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jackson Townsend, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Jackson Townsend registered to vote in Colorado County on July 20, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 18 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Jackson Townsend
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jackson Townsend
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 18 years
- Years in the precinct
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Townsend in Colorado County
- Charles Townsendborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1859
- George Townsendborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1845
- Richard Townsendborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1844
Townsends 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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