Leon County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Olmsted Patrick, Leon County, Texas, 1869
Olmsted Patrick registered to vote in Leon County on November 16, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Leon County registered 675 freedmen in 1867, 45% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Olmsted Patrick
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Leon County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in the precinct
- 17 years
- Naturalized, where
- "O. Mitchell Patrick"
- Signature, as written
- "Cold 1023"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Patricks 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 28 of the Leon County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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