Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Lee, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Lee registered to vote in Colorado County on August 3, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Thomas Lee
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Lee
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 46'
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Colorado County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Lee in Colorado County
- Anderson Leeborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Archibald Leeborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
- David Leeborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1854
- Lewis Leeborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1846
- Major Leeborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1846
Lees 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 29 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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