Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter White, Wood County, Texas, 1867
Peter White registered to vote in Wood County on July 20, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas, 12 of them in Wood County. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 22 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1845
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1845 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Wood County
Peter White
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter White
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Years in Wood County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Years in Texas before Wood County
- 10 years
- Signature, as written
- "Peter his x mark White"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsPeter White reported 10 years more in Texas than in Wood County.
Other freedmen named White in Wood County
- Henry Whiteborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1858
Whites 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 3 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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