Denton County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Burrill Smith, Denton County, Texas, 1867
Burrill Smith registered to vote in Denton County on August 22, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 8 of them in Denton County. Denton County registered 61 freedmen in 1867, 5% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Denton County
Burrill Smith
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Burrill Smith
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Denton County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Denton County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
Other freedmen named Smith in Denton County
- Isaac? Smithborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1861
- Thomas Smithborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1860
Smiths elsewhere 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. Denton County's entries fill 28 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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