Newton County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Hamilton Smith, Newton County, Texas, 1869
Hamilton Smith registered to vote in Newton County on November 25, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Newton County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Newton County registered 162 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
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In Newton County
Hamilton Smith
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Hamilton Smith
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Newton County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Newton County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Smiths 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. Newton County's entries fill 9 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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