Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Josiah Leonard, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Josiah Leonard registered to vote in Freestone County on August 15, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Josiah Leonard
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Josiah Leonard
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Leonards 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 24 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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