Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Sammuel Harrison, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Sammuel Harrison registered to vote in Brazos County on June 22, 1867. He reported 30 years in Texas, 1 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
30 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1837
Reached Texas
29 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1837 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Sammuel Harrison

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Sammuel Harrison
County of registration
Brazos County
Registered
June 22, 1867
Years in Texas
30 years
Years in Brazos County
1 year
Years in the precinct
1 year
Years in Texas before Brazos County
29 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Brazos County highlighted
Brazos County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

29 years

Sammuel Harrison reported 29 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Variations of Harrison

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. Brazos County's entries fill 51 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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