Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Perry, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Lewis Perry registered to vote in Colorado County on November 19, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 30 years 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.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 29 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Lewis Perry
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Perry
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 29 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
29 yearsLewis Perry reported 29 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Perry in Colorado County
- Peter Perryborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1857
Perrys 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 52 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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