Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Hawkins James, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Hawkins James registered to vote in Austin County on November 17, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 21 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
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
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In Austin County
Hawkins James
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Hawkins James
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Austin County
- 21 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named James in Austin County
- Smith Jamesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
Jameses 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. Austin County's entries fill 65 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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