Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Davidson, Hopkins County, Texas, 1869
Samuel Davidson registered to vote in Hopkins County on November 26, 1869. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Samuel Davidson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Davidson
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 3 months
- Years in the precinct
- 3 months
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 5 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Tennessee"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsSamuel Davidson reported 5 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Davidson in Hopkins County
- Lem Davidsonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1847
Davidsons 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 40 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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