There were four precincts in the Lovettsville District at the time; these were: Lovettsville, Waters (Between-the-Hills), Bolington, and Taylorstown.<\/p>\n There are 37 names of Black voters in the Lovettsville Precinct \u2013 all men, of course, since women\u2019s suffrage was not adopted until 1919.\u00a0 The names, with original spellings, are:<\/p>\n![\"Lov](\"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lov-colored-voter-register-2.jpg\")
<\/a>The voter register doesn\u2019t provide the name of voter registrar or clerk; however the school registers are signed by \u201cT.L. Potterfield, Clerk,\u201d which would be Thomas L. Potterfield, the owner of the meat store whose building now houses the Lovettsville Museum. Thomas Potterfield was probably also the creator of the voter register, since he was the Registrar of Voters for the Lovettsville Precinct, according to documents at the Clerk of Court archives in Leesburg that we examined in connection with another matter. In that case, an election for Commissioner of the Revenue in which Potterfield, the Democratic candidate, got 1946 votes, as against 246 write-in votes for the Republican candidate, was invalidated on the grounds that Potterfield served as the Registrar of Voters for an election in which he was a candidate.<\/p>\n