Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
D. U. Hampton, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
D. U. Hampton registered to vote in Harrison County on July 12, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 2 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
D. U. Hampton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- D. U. Hampton
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsD. U. Hampton reported 3 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Hampton in Harrison County
- Wade Hamptonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1850
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. Harrison County's entries fill 92 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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