Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Petele, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Lewis Petele registered to vote in Harrison County on July 5, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Lewis Petele
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Petele
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 9
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 4 months
- Years in the precinct
- 4 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsLewis Petele reported 7 years more in Texas than in Harrison 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. Harrison County's entries fill 92 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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