Madison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wily Moses, Madison County, Texas, 1867
Wily Moses registered to vote in Madison County on August 20, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Madison County registered 254 freedmen in 1867, 40% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 22 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
Wily Moses
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wily Moses
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Madison County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Madison County
- 7 months
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Years in Texas before Madison County
- 22 years
- Signature, as written
- "W G Harris"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
22 yearsWily Moses reported 22 years more in Texas than in Madison County.
Other freedmen named Moses in Madison County
- Floid Mosesborn in Florida, reached Texas about 1857
Moseses 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 7 of the Madison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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