Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
O'Niel Young, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
O'Niel Young registered to vote in Colorado County on July 11, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 5 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
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
O'Niel Young
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- O'Niel Young
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsO'Niel Young reported 2 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Young in Colorado County
- Lee Youngborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1852
Youngs 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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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