DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Peter Bryan, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Peter Bryan registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 17, 1867. He reported 27 years in Texas, 11 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
27 years
In Texas
11 years
In the county
about 1840
Reached Texas
16 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1840 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County

Peter Bryan

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Peter Bryan
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
1
Registered
July 17, 1867
Years in Texas
27 years
Years in DeWitt County
11 years
Years in the precinct
11 years
Years in Texas before DeWitt County
16 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with DeWitt County highlighted
DeWitt County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

16 years

Peter Bryan reported 16 years more in Texas than in DeWitt County.

Variations of Bryan

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 4 of the DeWitt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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