Bowie County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Polk Haynes, Bowie County, Texas, 1869
Polk Haynes registered to vote in Bowie County on November 25, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 3 of them in Bowie County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bowie County registered 462 freedmen in 1867, 55% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Polk Haynes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Polk Haynes
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bowie County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Bowie County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Bowie County
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsPolk Haynes reported 4 years more in Texas than in Bowie County.
Hayneses 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 21 of the Bowie County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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