DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Mills, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867
Sam Mills registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 16, 1867. He reported 15 years in Texas, 12 of them in DeWitt County. DeWitt County registered 364 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
1852186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County
Sam Mills
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Mills
- County of registration
- DeWitt County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in DeWitt County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before DeWitt County
- 3 years
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsSam Mills reported 3 years more in Texas than in DeWitt County.
Other freedmen named Mills in DeWitt County
- Hy Lewis Millsreached Texas about 1846
- Peter Millsreached Texas about 1853
- Thomas Millsreached Texas about 1852
Millses 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. It sits on page 2 of the DeWitt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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