DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wells Smith, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867
Wells Smith registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 23, 1867. He reported 17 years in Texas. DeWitt County registered 364 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- 17 years
- In Texas
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
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In DeWitt County
Wells Smith
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wells Smith
- County of registration
- DeWitt County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
Other freedmen named Smith in DeWitt County
- Henry Smithreached Texas about 1865
- James Smithreached Texas about 1855
- Ned Smithreached Texas about 1843
- Pleas Smithreached Texas about 1863
Smiths 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. DeWitt County's entries fill 26 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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