Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Bartley Gordon, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
Bartley Gordon registered to vote in Harrison County on November 17, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 21 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
- 21 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Bartley Gordon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Bartley Gordon
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 21 years
- Years in the precinct
- 21 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Ala"
- Signature, as written
- "B. Gordon (x)"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Gordons 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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