Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Theodore Lee, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Theodore Lee registered to vote in Colorado County on August 19, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 10 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
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Theodore Lee
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Theodore Lee
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsTheodore Lee reported 7 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
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 42 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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