Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jeremiah J. Hamilton, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Jeremiah J. Hamilton registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 4, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Jeremiah J. Hamilton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jeremiah J. Hamilton
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 4, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsJeremiah J. Hamilton reported 9 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Hamilton in Bastrop County
- Harrison Hamiltonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1863
- Peter Hamiltonborn in Ohio, reached Texas about 1855
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 1 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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