Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Witherspoon, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Benjamin Witherspoon registered to vote in Harrison County on June 28, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Benjamin Witherspoon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Witherspoon
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- June 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Witherspoon in Harrison County
- Barcus Witherspoonborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
Witherspoons 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. Harrison County's entries fill 92 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
African American genealogy in Harrison County, Texas
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