DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Peter Williams, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Peter Williams registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 20, 1867. He reported 20 years in Texas, 20 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
20 years
In Texas
20 years
In the county
about 1847
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1847 to 1870

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In DeWitt County

Peter Williams

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Peter Williams
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
1
Registered
July 20, 1867
Years in Texas
20 years
Years in DeWitt County
20 years
Years in the precinct
20 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with DeWitt County highlighted
DeWitt County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Williams in DeWitt County

Williamses elsewhere in Texas

All 560 freedmen named Williams in Texas

Variations of Williams

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 7 of the DeWitt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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