Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Gant, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
Thomas Gant registered to vote in Harrison County on November 18, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
1848186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Harrison County
Thomas Gant
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Gant
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- November 18, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 8 months
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 20 years
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsThomas Gant reported 20 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Gant in Harrison County
- Jack Gantborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1846
Gants 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.
African American genealogy in Harrison County, Texas
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