Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Doe Windell, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Doe Windell registered to vote in Colorado County on November 20, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 2 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
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Doe Windell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Doe Windell
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsDoe Windell reported 6 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
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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