Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Freeman Bowie, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Freeman Bowie registered to vote in Harrison County on July 15, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Freeman Bowie
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Freeman Bowie
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 7
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bowie in Harrison County
- Hiram Bowieborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
Bowies 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 30 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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