Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Jordan, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Lewis Jordan registered to vote in Freestone County on August 14, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Lewis Jordan
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Jordan
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jordan in Freestone County
- Ephriam Jordanborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- Joseph Jordanborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1867
Jordans 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. Freestone County's entries fill 45 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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