Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wade Hampton, Brazoria County, Texas, 1869
Wade Hampton registered to vote in Brazoria County on November 16, 1869. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 38 years in Texas, 38 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 38 years
- In Texas
- 38 years
- In the county
- about 1831
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1831 to 1870
Wade Hampton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wade Hampton
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 38 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 38 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hampton in Brazoria County
- Abreham Hamptonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1827
Hamptons 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. It sits on page 36 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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