Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moses Jacobs, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Moses Jacobs registered to vote in Harrison County on July 29, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Moses Jacobs
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moses Jacobs
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Signature, as written
- "W. Jacobs."
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Jacobs in Harrison County
- Austin Jacobsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1847
- Perry Jacobsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
- Quincy Jacobsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1846
- William Jacobsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1848
Jacobses 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 49 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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