DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Doc Davis, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867
Doc Davis registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 19, 1867. He reported 21 years in Texas, 8 of them in DeWitt County. DeWitt County registered 364 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
1846186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County
Doc Davis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Doc Davis
- County of registration
- DeWitt County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in DeWitt County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Years in Texas before DeWitt County
- 13 years
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsDoc Davis reported 13 years more in Texas than in DeWitt County.
Other freedmen named Davis in DeWitt County
- Burrel Davisborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1859
Davises 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. DeWitt County's entries fill 26 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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