Galveston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Desmy Hart, Galveston County, Texas, 1868
Desmy Hart registered to vote in Galveston County on January 28, 1868. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 2 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Galveston County registered 1,179 freedmen in 1867, 39% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Galveston County
Desmy Hart
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Desmy Hart
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Galveston County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- January 28, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Harts 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. Galveston County's entries fill 71 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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