Harris County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wesley Prewit, Harris County, Texas, 1867
Wesley Prewit registered to vote in Harris County on June 12, 1867. He reported 20 years in Texas, 6 of them in Harris County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harris County registered 2,039 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Wesley Prewit
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wesley Prewit
- County of registration
- Harris County
- Registered
- June 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Harris County
- 6 years
- Years in Texas before Harris County
- 14 years
- Naturalized, how
- "By Reconstruction laws of Congress"
- Naturalized, when
- "1867"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "William his x mark Frosty"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsWesley Prewit reported 14 years more in Texas than in Harris County.
Prewits 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 1 of the Harris County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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