Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gordon Solomon, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Gordon Solomon registered to vote in Harrison County on July 6, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 2 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Gordon Solomon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gordon Solomon
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 4
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year 6 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearGordon Solomon reported 1 year more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Solomons 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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