Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Hire Black, Davis County, Texas, 1867
Hire Black registered to vote in Davis County on August 31, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 13 of them in Davis County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Davis County
Hire Black
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Hire Black
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 4
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- August 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Davis County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Black in Davis County
- John Blackborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1848
Blacks 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. Davis County's entries fill 67 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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