DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abraham Crane, DeWitt County, Texas, 1869
Abraham Crane registered to vote in DeWitt County on November 22, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 12 of them in DeWitt County. DeWitt County registered 364 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Abraham Crane
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abraham Crane
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- DeWitt County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 22, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in DeWitt County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Years in Texas before DeWitt County
- 3 years
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsAbraham Crane reported 3 years more in Texas than in DeWitt County.
Cranes 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 25 of the DeWitt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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