Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Brooks, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Benjamin Brooks registered to vote in Hopkins County on September 28, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Benjamin Brooks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Brooks
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- September 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 14 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Ohio"
- Signature, as written
- "W J Sadler"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsBenjamin Brooks reported 14 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Brooks in Hopkins County
- George Brooksborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1852
- Harris Brooksborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1860
- Lemuel Brooksborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1860
Brookses 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 37 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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