Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Isom Spencer, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Isom Spencer registered to vote in Harrison County on July 18, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
Isom Spencer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Isom Spencer
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 10
- Place of residence
- Harrison County.
- Registered
- July 18, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsIsom Spencer reported 6 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Spencer in Harrison County
- George Spencerborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1849
Spencers 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 35 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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