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.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in DeWitt County, Texas
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
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with DeWitt County highlighted
DeWitt County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Smith in DeWitt County

Smiths elsewhere in Texas

All 459 freedmen named Smith 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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