Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Mitchell Wright, Hopkins County, Texas, 1869
Mitchell Wright registered to vote in Hopkins County on November 23, 1869. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 15 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.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Mitchell Wright
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Mitchell Wright
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 14 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Mississippi"
- Signature, as written
- "John McVeay"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsMitchell Wright reported 14 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Wright in Hopkins County
- Evan Wrightborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
- Solomon Wrightborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
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 39 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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