Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Willis Payne, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Willis Payne registered to vote in Harrison County on July 18, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 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
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Willis Payne
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Willis Payne
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 6
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 18, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Payne in Harrison County
- James Payneborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1846
- Nelson Payneborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1846
Paynes 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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