Cherokee County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Morris, Cherokee County, Texas, 1867
Peter Morris registered to vote in Cherokee County on Jul. 23 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 of them in Cherokee County. Cherokee County registered 695 freedmen in 1867, 30% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Cherokee County
Peter Morris
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Morris
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Cherokee County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- Jul. 23 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Cherokee County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
Other freedmen named Morris in Cherokee County
- Abraham Morrisborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1866
Morrises elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Morris
- Morrison 16
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. Cherokee County's entries fill 59 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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