Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edward Buchanan, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Edward Buchanan registered to vote in Harrison County on August 21, 1867. He reported Maryland 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.
- Maryland
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Edward Buchanan
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edward Buchanan
- Place of birth
- Maryland
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 21 years
- Years in the precinct
- 21 years
- Signature, as written
- "R. May"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Buchanan in Harrison County
- Arch Buchananborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
- Edmund Buchananborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
- James Buchananborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1849
- Silas Buchananborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
Buchanans 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 73 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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