Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Bartley Garden, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Bartley Garden registered to vote in Harrison County on August 22, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 1 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored. Residence forfeited by living in Louisiana last year" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Bartley Garden
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Bartley Garden
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 20 years
- Signature, as written
- "B. Gardner"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored. Residence forfeited by living in Louisiana last year"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsBartley Garden reported 20 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Garden in Harrison County
- Robert Gardenborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
Gardens 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 76 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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