Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Vincent, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Vincent registered to vote in Harrison County on July 16, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 1 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Joseph Vincent
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Vincent
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsJoseph Vincent reported 15 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Vincent in Harrison County
- Samuel Vincentborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1849
Vincents 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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