Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wilson Day, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Wilson Day registered to vote in Dallas County on September 23, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Dallas County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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In Dallas County
Wilson Day
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wilson Day
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- September 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Days 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 27 of the Dallas County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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