Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Thomas, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Thomas registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 24, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 20 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.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Samuel Thomas
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Thomas
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 13 years
- Signature, as written
- "James x Thomas"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsSamuel Thomas reported 13 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Thomas in Hopkins County
- James Thomasborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1855
Thomases elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Thomas
- Thomason 22
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 32 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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