Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Isaac Yates, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Isaac Yates registered to vote in Colorado County on July 11, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 11 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 11 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Isaac Yates
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Isaac Yates
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 11 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsIsaac Yates reported 6 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Yates in Colorado County
- Thomas Yatesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1851
Yateses 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 1 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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