Hill County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Danby Bell, Hill County, Texas, 1867
Danby Bell registered to vote in Hill County on July 18, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Hill County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hill County registered 159 freedmen in 1867, 17% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Hill County
Danby Bell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Danby Bell
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Hill County
- Precinct
- Hillsboro
- Registered
- July 18, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Hill County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bell in Hill County
- Harrison Bellborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1857
Bells 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 2 of the Hill County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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