DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Rovet Lewis, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Rovet Lewis registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 19, 1867. He reported 21 years in Texas, 21 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
21 years
In Texas
21 years
In the county
about 1846
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1846 to 1870

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In DeWitt County

Rovet Lewis

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Rovet Lewis
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
4
Registered
July 19, 1867
Years in Texas
21 years
Years in DeWitt County
21 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with DeWitt County highlighted
DeWitt County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Lewis in DeWitt County

Lewises elsewhere in Texas

All 197 freedmen named Lewis 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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