Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Harvey Thompson, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Harvey Thompson registered to vote in Anderson County on August 15, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Anderson County
Harvey Thompson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Harvey Thompson
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Thompson in Anderson County
- Silas Thompsonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1847
Thompsons elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Thompson
- Thomson 10
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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