Maverick County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Lee Petaway, Maverick County, Texas, 1869

Lee Petaway registered to vote in Maverick County on November 17, 1869. He reported 4 years in Texas. Maverick County registered 12 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Maverick County, Texas
4 years
In Texas
about 1865
Reached Texas
3 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From 1860 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Maverick County

Lee Petaway

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Lee Petaway
County of registration
Maverick County
Precinct
2
Registered
November 17, 1869
Years in Texas
4 years
Years in Maverick County
6 months
Years in the precinct
6 months
Years in Texas before Maverick County
3 years
Signature, as written
"Lee O. Jones"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Maverick County highlighted
Maverick County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

3 years

Lee Petaway reported 3 years more in Texas than in Maverick 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. It sits on page 1 of the Maverick County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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