DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Sam Woods, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867

Sam Woods registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 19, 1867. He reported 21 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
21 years
In Texas
20 years
In the county
about 1846
Reached Texas
1 year
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1846 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County

Sam Woods

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Sam Woods
County of registration
DeWitt County
Precinct
4
Registered
July 19, 1867
Years in Texas
21 years
Years in DeWitt County
20 years
Years in the precinct
20 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

Sam Woods reported 1 year more in Texas than in DeWitt County.

Variations of Woods

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

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