Leon County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Issac Driver, Leon County, Texas, 1867
Issac Driver registered to vote in Leon County on August 19, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Leon County registered 675 freedmen in 1867, 45% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Issac Driver
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Issac Driver
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Leon County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Leon County
- 11 months
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Years in Texas before Leon County
- 14 years
- Naturalized, where
- "Isaac Driver"
- Signature, as written
- "Isaac x Driver"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsIssac Driver reported 14 years more in Texas than in Leon County.
Other freedmen named Driver in Leon County
- Henry Driverborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1855
Drivers 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 15 of the Leon County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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