DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Foster Washington, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Foster Washington registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 18, 1867. He reported 15 years in Texas, 14 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
14 years
In the county
about 1852
Reached Texas
1 year
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1852 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County

Foster Washington

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Foster Washington
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
1
Registered
July 18, 1867
Years in Texas
15 years
Years in DeWitt County
14 years
Years in the precinct
14 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

Foster Washington reported 1 year more in Texas than in DeWitt County.

Other freedmen named Washington in DeWitt County

Washingtons elsewhere in Texas

All 262 freedmen named Washington 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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