Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nick Wheat, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
Nick Wheat registered to vote in Harrison County on November 17, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 10 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Nick Wheat
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nick Wheat
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 11 years
- Signature, as written
- "H. Wheat (x)"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsNick Wheat reported 11 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Wheat in Harrison County
- Allen Wheatborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1848
- Peter Wheatborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
Wheats 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 87 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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