Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Roberts, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Roberts registered to vote in Harrison County on July 30, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 18 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
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Samuel Roberts
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Roberts
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 18 years
- Years in the precinct
- 18 years
- Signature, as written
- "W Roberts"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Roberts in Harrison County
- Allen Robertsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1849
- Anthony Robertsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1846
- Douglass Robertsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
- Edmund Robertsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1849
- Frank Robertsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1850
Robertses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Roberts
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 51 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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