Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Kin Gains, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Kin Gains registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 6, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 7 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
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Kin Gains
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Kin Gains
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 11 years
- Signature, as written
- "Jim x Gains"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsKin Gains reported 11 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Gainses 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 17 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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