Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Russell Townsend, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Russell Townsend registered to vote in Harrison County on August 26, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Russell Townsend
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Russell Townsend
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 2 years
- Signature, as written
- "R. Townsend"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsRussell Townsend reported 2 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Townsend in Harrison County
- William Townsendborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1856
Townsends 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 79 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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