Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nat Reynolds, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Nat Reynolds registered to vote in Hopkins County on July 29, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Nat Reynolds
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nat Reynolds
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 13 years
- Naturalized, how
- "at the Mayors Office"
- Naturalized, when
- "1857"
- Naturalized, where
- "City Philadelphia Pa"
- Signature, as written
- "Nat x Reynolds"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsNat Reynolds reported 13 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Reynolds in Hopkins County
- Esquire Reynoldsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1858
Reynoldses 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 9 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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