Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wade Hampton, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Wade Hampton registered to vote in Harrison County on July 20, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 17 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Wade Hampton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wade Hampton
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 17 years
- Years in the precinct
- 17 years
- Signature, as written
- "C. Hampton"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Hampton in Harrison County
- D. U. Hamptonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1862
Hamptons 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 38 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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