Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Barnett Ham, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
Barnett Ham registered to vote in Harrison County on November 16, 1869. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- about 1856
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1856 to 1870
Barnett Ham
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Barnett Ham
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 2 months
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 12 years
- Signature, as written
- "B " Razor"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsBarnett Ham reported 12 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Ham in Harrison County
- Squire Hamborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1857
Hams 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 86 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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