Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jack Ector, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
Jack Ector registered to vote in Harrison County on November 18, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 3 of them in Harrison County. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
Jack Ector
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jack Ector
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Registered
- November 18, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 6 years
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsJack Ector reported 6 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Ector in Harrison County
- Isom Ectorborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1847
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.
African American genealogy in Harrison County, Texas
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