Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Leftage, Hunt County, Texas, 1867
Robert Leftage registered to vote in Hunt County on August 7, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 11 of them in Hunt County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 11 years
- In the county
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Robert Leftage
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Leftage
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Hunt County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Hunt County
- 11 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Hunt County
- 10 years
- Signature, as written
- "Robert Loftis"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsRobert Leftage reported 10 years more in Texas than in Hunt County.
Other freedmen named Leftage in Hunt County
- William Leftageborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1846
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 13 of the Hunt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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