Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmmund Lewis, Brazos County, Texas, 1869
Edmmund Lewis registered to vote in Brazos County on November 25, 1869. He reported 10 years in Texas, 3 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Edmmund Lewis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmmund Lewis
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsEdmmund Lewis reported 7 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Other freedmen named Lewis in Brazos County
- Artwell Lewisreached Texas about 1858
- George Lewisreached Texas about 1847
- Harry Lewisreached Texas about 1856
- Thomas Lewisreached Texas about 1862
- Tom Lewisreached Texas about 1829
Lewises 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. Brazos County's entries fill 51 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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