Nueces County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Mark Robert Thompson, Nueces County, Texas, 1869
Mark Robert Thompson registered to vote in Nueces County on November 24, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas, 15 of them in Nueces County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Nueces County registered 69 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Mark Robert Thompson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Mark Robert Thompson
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Nueces County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Nueces County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Years in Texas before Nueces County
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsMark Robert Thompson reported 8 years more in Texas than in Nueces County.
Other freedmen named Thompson in Nueces County
- Fountain M. Thompsonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1842
- Mitchell Thompsonborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1864
- Robert Thompsonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1842
Thompsons elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Thompson
- Thomson 10
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 11 of the Nueces County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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