Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Gains, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
Lewis Gains registered to vote in Harrison County on November 17, 1869. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 4 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Lewis Gains
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Gains
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 3 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Ga"
- Signature, as written
- "L. Gains (x)"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsLewis Gains reported 3 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Gains in Harrison County
- Caleb Gainsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1863
Gainses 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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