Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thos Hawkins, Austin County, Texas, 1868
Thos Hawkins registered to vote in Austin County on January 31, 1868. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas, 3 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 22 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Thos Hawkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thos Hawkins
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Years in Austin County
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsThos Hawkins reported 19 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Hawkins in Austin County
- George Hawkinsborn in Florida, reached Texas about 1865
- Henderson Hawkinsborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1842
- Robert Hawkinsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1859
- Thomas Hawkinsborn in Guinea, Africa, reached Texas about 1822
Hawkinses 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 51 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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