Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Rolander Taylor, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Rolander Taylor registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 5, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 3 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Rolander Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Rolander Taylor
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 12 years
- Signature, as written
- "Rolander x Taylor"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsRolander Taylor reported 12 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Taylor in Hopkins County
- Langston Taylorborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1852
Taylors 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 15 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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