Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Solomon Wright, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Solomon Wright registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 7, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Solomon Wright
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Solomon Wright
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 15 years
- Signature, as written
- "Edward Morris"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsSolomon Wright reported 15 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Wright in Hopkins County
- Evan Wrightborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
- Mitchell Wrightborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1854
Wrights 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 18 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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