Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Harry Lewis, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Harry Lewis registered to vote in Brazos County on July 20, 1867. He reported 11 years in Texas, 10 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
11 years
In Texas
10 years
In the county
about 1856
Reached Texas
1 year
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1856 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Harry Lewis

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Harry Lewis
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
2
Registered
July 20, 1867
Years in Texas
11 years
Years in Brazos County
10 years
Years in the precinct
10 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
1 year
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Brazos County highlighted
Brazos County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

1 year

Harry Lewis reported 1 year more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Lewis in Brazos County

Lewises elsewhere in Texas

All 197 freedmen named Lewis 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 26 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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