Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Burrel Tabb, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
Burrel Tabb registered to vote in Harrison County on July 22, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 21 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Burrel Tabb
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Burrel Tabb
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 22, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 21 years
- Years in the precinct
- 21 years
- Signature, as written
- "B Babb"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Tabb in Harrison County
- Ephraim Tabbborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1846
Tabbs 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 40 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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