Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Peter Turner, Colorado County, Texas, 1867

Peter Turner registered to vote in Colorado County on August 26, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 13 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Born in Texas, registered in Colorado County
Texas
Birthplace
21 years
In Texas
13 years
In the county
8 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1846 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Colorado County

Peter Turner

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Peter Turner
Place of birth
Texas
County of registration
Colorado County
Precinct
96° 32'
Registered
August 26, 1867
Years in Texas
21 years
Years in Colorado County
13 years
Years in the precinct
13 years
Years in Texas before Colorado County
8 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Colorado County highlighted
Colorado County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

8 years

Peter Turner reported 8 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.

Other freedmen named Turner in Colorado County

Turners elsewhere in Texas

All 105 freedmen named Turner 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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