DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ned Bennum, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867
Ned Bennum registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 30, 1867. He reported 14 years in Texas, 8 of them in DeWitt County. DeWitt County registered 364 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
1853186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County
Ned Bennum
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ned Bennum
- County of registration
- DeWitt County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in DeWitt County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Years in Texas before DeWitt County
- 6 years
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsNed Bennum reported 6 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. It sits on page 14 of the DeWitt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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