DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Aaron Jackson, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Aaron Jackson registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 22, 1867. He reported 35 years in Texas, 15 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
35 years
In Texas
15 years
In the county
about 1832
Reached Texas
20 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1832 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County

Aaron Jackson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Aaron Jackson
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
2
Registered
July 22, 1867
Years in Texas
35 years
Years in DeWitt County
15 years
Years in the precinct
15 years
Years in Texas before DeWitt County
20 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with DeWitt County highlighted
DeWitt County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

20 years

Aaron Jackson reported 20 years more in Texas than in DeWitt County.

Other freedmen named Jackson in DeWitt County

Jacksons elsewhere in Texas

All 521 freedmen named Jackson 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 8 of the DeWitt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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