DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Thomas Ellis, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Thomas Ellis registered to vote in DeWitt County on August 7, 1867. He reported 14 years in Texas, 14 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
14 years
In Texas
14 years
In the county
about 1853
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1853 to 1870

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In DeWitt County

Thomas Ellis

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Thomas Ellis
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
7
Registered
August 7, 1867
Years in Texas
14 years
Years in DeWitt County
14 years
Years in the precinct
14 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with DeWitt County highlighted
DeWitt County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Ellis in DeWitt County

Ellises elsewhere in Texas

All 44 freedmen named Ellis in Texas

Variations of Ellis

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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