Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henry May, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Henry May registered to vote in Hopkins County on July 23, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Hopkins County. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Henry May
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henry May
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Signature, as written
- "Henry L. May"
Mays 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 4 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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