Victoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Daniel Lewis, Victoria County, Texas, 1867

Daniel Lewis registered to vote in Victoria County on September 28, 1867. He reported 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Victoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Victoria County registered 419 freedmen in 1867, 48% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Victoria County, Texas
20 years
In Texas
20 years
In the county
about 1847
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1847 to 1870

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In Victoria County

Daniel Lewis

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Daniel Lewis
County of registration
Victoria County
Precinct
1
Registered
September 28, 1867
Years in Texas
20 years
Years in Victoria County
20 years
Years in the precinct
20 years
Signature, as written
"H. H. Williams"
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Victoria County highlighted
Victoria County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Lewis in Victoria County

Lewises elsewhere in Texas

All 217 freedmen named Lewis 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 18 of the Victoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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