Victoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Miles Lowe, Victoria County, Texas, 1869
Miles Lowe registered to vote in Victoria County on November 16, 1869. He reported 5 years in Texas, 3 of them in Victoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Victoria County registered 419 freedmen in 1867, 48% of its voters.
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Miles Lowe
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Miles Lowe
- County of registration
- Victoria County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Victoria County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Victoria County
- 2 years
- Naturalized, how
- "By act of Congress."
- Signature, as written
- "Ernst Urban"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsMiles Lowe reported 2 years more in Texas than in Victoria County.
Lowes 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 19 of the Victoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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