Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jack Jefferson, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Jack Jefferson registered to vote in Harrison County on July 8, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Jack Jefferson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jack Jefferson
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 11
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jefferson in Harrison County
- Charles Jeffersonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1850
- Charles M. Jeffersonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1851
- Green Jeffersonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
- Henry Jeffersonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
- Henry Jeffersonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1862
Jeffersons 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 20 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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