Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benj Franklin, Hunt County, Texas, 1867
Benj Franklin registered to vote in Hunt County on July 20, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Benj Franklin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benj Franklin
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hunt County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Hunt County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Hunt County
- 7 years
- Signature, as written
- "King X Franklin " ""
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsBenj Franklin reported 7 years more in Texas than in Hunt County.
Other freedmen named Franklin in Hunt County
- Benjamin Franklinborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1864
Franklins 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 4 of the Hunt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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