DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Hamilton Meadows, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Hamilton Meadows registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 17, 1867. He reported 13 years in Texas, 12 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
13 years
In Texas
12 years
In the county
about 1854
Reached Texas
1 year
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1854 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County

Hamilton Meadows

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Hamilton Meadows
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
3
Registered
July 17, 1867
Years in Texas
13 years
Years in DeWitt County
12 years
Years in the precinct
12 years
Years in Texas before DeWitt County
1 year
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with DeWitt County highlighted
DeWitt County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

1 year

Hamilton Meadows reported 1 year more in Texas than in DeWitt County.

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 4 of the DeWitt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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