Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jean White, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Jean White registered to vote in Dallas County on August 19, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 4 of them in Dallas County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Jean White
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jean White
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Years in Texas before Dallas County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsJean White reported 2 years more in Texas than in Dallas County.
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. Dallas County's entries fill 44 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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