Kerr County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Timothy Shaw, Kerr County, Texas, 1868
Timothy Shaw registered to vote in Kerr County on November 24, 1868. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 2 of them in Kerr County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Kerr County registered 18 freedmen in 1867, 10% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1838
- Reached Texas
- 28 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1838 to 1870
Timothy Shaw
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Timothy Shaw
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Kerr County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 24, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Kerr County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Kerr County
- 28 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
28 yearsTimothy Shaw reported 28 years more in Texas than in Kerr County.
Shaws 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. Kerr County's entries fill 5 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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