Newton County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Andrew Tompkins, Newton County, Texas, 1869

Andrew Tompkins registered to vote in Newton County on November 19, 1869. He reported 21 years in Texas, 21 of them in Newton County. Newton County registered 162 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Newton County, Texas
21 years
In Texas
21 years
In the county
about 1848
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1848 to 1870

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In Newton County

Andrew Tompkins

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Andrew Tompkins
County of registration
Newton County
Precinct
1
Registered
November 19, 1869
Years in Texas
21 years
Years in Newton County
21 years
Years in the precinct
21 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Newton County highlighted
Newton County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Tompkins in Newton County

Tompkinses elsewhere in Texas

All 3 freedmen named Tompkins 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. Newton County's entries fill 9 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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