Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Hamilton, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Peter Hamilton registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 12, 1867. He reported Ohio as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Ohio
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Peter Hamilton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Hamilton
- Place of birth
- Ohio
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsPeter Hamilton reported 11 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Hamilton in Bastrop County
- Harrison Hamiltonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1863
- Jeremiah J. Hamiltonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1857
Hamiltons 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 16 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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