Jefferson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Lewis Farwood, Jefferson County, Texas, 1867

Lewis Farwood registered to vote in Jefferson County on August 8, 1867. He reported 22 years in Texas. Jefferson County registered 117 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Jefferson County, Texas
22 years
In Texas
about 1845
Reached Texas
21 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1845 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Jefferson County

Lewis Farwood

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Lewis Farwood
County of registration
Jefferson County
Precinct
2
Registered
August 8, 1867
Years in Texas
22 years
Years in Jefferson County
5 months
Years in the precinct
5 months
Years in Texas before Jefferson County
21 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Jefferson County highlighted
Jefferson County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

21 years

Lewis Farwood reported 21 years more in Texas than in Jefferson County.

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. Jefferson County's entries fill 8 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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