Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jeremiah Nelson, Hunt County, Texas, 1867
Jeremiah Nelson registered to vote in Hunt County on July 20, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 5 of them in Hunt County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
Jeremiah Nelson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jeremiah Nelson
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Hunt County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Hunt County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Hunt County
- 4 years
- Signature, as written
- "Jeremiah x Nelson"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsJeremiah Nelson reported 4 years more in Texas than in Hunt County.
Other freedmen named Nelson in Hunt County
- Richard Nelsonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1848
Nelsons 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 5 of the Hunt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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