Leon County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ezekiel Cartwright, Leon County, Texas, 1867
Ezekiel Cartwright registered to vote in Leon County on August 12, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 20 of them in Leon County. The registrar wrote "Colored. Amount of time in county and precinct seem backwards" beside his name. Leon County registered 675 freedmen in 1867, 45% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Ezekiel Cartwright
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ezekiel Cartwright
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Leon County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Leon County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 23 years
- Years in Texas before Leon County
- 10 years
- Signature, as written
- "Ezekiel Cartwright"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored. Amount of time in county and precinct seem backwards"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsEzekiel Cartwright reported 10 years more in Texas than in Leon County.
Other freedmen named Cartwright in Leon County
- Ely Cartwrightborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
Cartwrights 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. It sits on page 9 of the Leon County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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