Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Claiborne, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Claiborne registered to vote in Harrison County. He reported Kentucky 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.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Claiborne
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 2 months
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Claibornes 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.
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