Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Woolbridge, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Peter Woolbridge registered to vote in Harrison County on June 28, 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
Peter Woolbridge
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Woolbridge
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- June 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Woolbridge in Harrison County
- Daniel Woolbridgeborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1849
Woolbridges 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 7 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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