Guadalupe County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lucas Porter, Guadalupe County, Texas, 1867
Lucas Porter registered to vote in Guadalupe County on July 11, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Guadalupe County registered 508 freedmen in 1867, 38% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Guadalupe County
Lucas Porter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lucas Porter
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Guadalupe County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Guadalupe County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Porter in Guadalupe County
- Anderson Porterborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- George Porterborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1866
Porters 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 3 of the Guadalupe County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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