Bowie County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Hunter, Bowie County, Texas, 1869
Peter Hunter registered to vote in Bowie County on August 6, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Bowie County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bowie County registered 462 freedmen in 1867, 55% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Bowie County
Peter Hunter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Hunter
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bowie County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 6, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Bowie County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hunter in Bowie County
- Louis Hunterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1855
- Moses Hunterborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Osborne Hunterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1855
Hunters 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 14 of the Bowie County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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