DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Ed Williams, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Ed Williams registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 22, 1867. He reported 16 years in Texas, 1 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
16 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1851
Reached Texas
15 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

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In DeWitt County

Ed Williams

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Ed Williams
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
2
Registered
July 22, 1867
Years in Texas
16 years
Years in DeWitt County
1 year
Years in the precinct
1 year
Years in Texas before DeWitt County
15 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with DeWitt County highlighted
DeWitt County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

15 years

Ed Williams reported 15 years more in Texas than in DeWitt County.

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

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