Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Welch, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Robert Welch registered to vote in Harrison County on June 29, 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
Robert Welch
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Welch
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- June 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Welch in Harrison County
- Charles Welchborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1849
- George Welchborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1849
Welches 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.
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