Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dred Hewitt, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Dred Hewitt registered to vote in Colorado County on November 20, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Dred Hewitt
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dred Hewitt
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hewitt in Colorado County
- Durden Hewittborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1856
Hewitts 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 53 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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