DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Thomas Reed, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Thomas Reed registered to vote in DeWitt County on August 7, 1867. He reported 15 years in Texas, 4 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
15 years
In Texas
4 years
In the county
about 1852
Reached Texas
11 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1852 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County

Thomas Reed

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Thomas Reed
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
7
Registered
August 7, 1867
Years in Texas
15 years
Years in DeWitt County
4 years
Years in the precinct
4 years
Years in Texas before DeWitt County
11 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with DeWitt County highlighted
DeWitt County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

11 years

Thomas Reed reported 11 years 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. DeWitt County's entries fill 26 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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