Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sterling Chapman, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Sterling Chapman registered to vote in Harrison County on August 22, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Sterling Chapman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sterling Chapman
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 16 years
- Signature, as written
- "S Albrook"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Chapman in Harrison County
- William Chapmanborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1862
Chapmans 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 74 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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