Guadalupe County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Carpenter, Guadalupe County, Texas, 1869
Thomas Carpenter registered to vote in Guadalupe County on November 30, 1869. He reported 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Entered by special telegraphic instruction Certificate of Registration from Bexar Co" beside his name. Guadalupe County registered 508 freedmen in 1867, 38% of its voters.
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1868
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Thomas Carpenter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Carpenter
- County of registration
- Guadalupe County
- Registered
- November 30, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Guadalupe County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Entered by special telegraphic instruction Certificate of Registration from Bexar Co"
Other freedmen named Carpenter in Guadalupe County
- Henry Carpenterborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1866
- John Carpenterborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1866
Carpenters 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 33 of the Guadalupe County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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