Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Stephen Armstrong, Hopkins County, Texas, 1869
Stephen Armstrong registered to vote in Hopkins County on November 23, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 2 years in Texas, 1 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Stephen Armstrong
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Stephen Armstrong
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 1 year
- Naturalized, how
- "Alabama"
- Signature, as written
- "Joshua Armstrong"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearStephen Armstrong reported 1 year more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Armstrongs 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 39 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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