DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Jeff Balis, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Jeff Balis registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 19, 1867. He reported 12 years in Texas, 4 of them in DeWitt County. DeWitt County registered 364 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in DeWitt County, Texas
12 years
In Texas
4 years
In the county
about 1855
Reached Texas
8 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1855 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County

Jeff Balis

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Jeff Balis
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
1
Registered
July 19, 1867
Years in Texas
12 years
Years in DeWitt County
4 years
Years in the precinct
4 years
Years in Texas before DeWitt County
8 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with DeWitt County highlighted
DeWitt County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

8 years

Jeff Balis reported 8 years more in Texas than in DeWitt County.

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. DeWitt County's entries fill 26 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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