Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moses Watt, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Moses Watt registered to vote in Harrison County on June 25, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored. Transferred to Rusk County" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Moses Watt
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moses Watt
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- June 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 5 months
- Years in the precinct
- 5 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored. Transferred to Rusk County"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsMoses Watt reported 19 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Watt in Harrison County
- Grayson Wattborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
Variations of Watt
- Watts 14
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 3 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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