Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Franklin, Hunt County, Texas, 1869
Benjamin Franklin registered to vote in Hunt County on November 26, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored. Had been in County and Precint for 3 weeks" beside his name. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Benjamin Franklin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Franklin
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hunt County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Hunt County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Hunt County
- 4 years
- Signature, as written
- "Newamen his X mark Franklin"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored. Had been in County and Precint for 3 weeks"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsBenjamin Franklin reported 4 years more in Texas than in Hunt County.
Other freedmen named Franklin in Hunt County
- Benj Franklinborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1859
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 31 of the Hunt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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