Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Yates, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Thomas Yates registered to vote in Colorado County on November 16, 1869. He reported Tennessee 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.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Thomas Yates
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Yates
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 18 years
- Years in the precinct
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Yates in Colorado County
- Isaac Yatesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1850
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 48 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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