Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Lee, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Thomas Lee registered to vote in Freestone County on November 26, 1869. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Thomas Lee
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Lee
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Lee in Freestone County
- Alfred Leeborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- Benjamin Leeborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- Zachariah Leeborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
Lees 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 45 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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