Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Daniel Hughes, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Daniel Hughes registered to vote in Anderson County on November 19, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 4 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- 17 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Daniel Hughes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Daniel Hughes
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Registered
- November 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Anderson County
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
17 yearsDaniel Hughes reported 17 years more in Texas than in Anderson County.
Other freedmen named Hughes in Anderson County
- Holland Hughesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Hugh Hughesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1855
- Thomas Hughesborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
Hugheses 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. Anderson County's entries fill 53 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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