Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Spotswood Woodridge, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Spotswood Woodridge registered to vote in Colorado County on July 19, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 17 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.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Spotswood Woodridge
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Spotswood Woodridge
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 13 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsSpotswood Woodridge reported 4 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Woodridge in Colorado County
- Henry Woodridgeborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1850
Woodridges 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 16 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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