Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Daniel Hawkins, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Daniel Hawkins registered to vote in Colorado County on August 14, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Daniel Hawkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Daniel Hawkins
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hawkins in Colorado County
- Aaron Hawkinsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- William Hawkinsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1842
Hawkinses 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 38 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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