Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Head, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Peter Head registered to vote in Harrison County on July 20, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Peter Head
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Head
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 months
- Years in Harrison County
- 18 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Signature, as written
- "J. Head"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Head in Harrison County
- Isaac Headborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Stephen Headborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
- Thomas Headborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1858
Heads 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 Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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