Falls County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Joe Shaw, Falls County, Texas, 1869

Joe Shaw registered to vote in Falls County on November 16, 1869. He reported 12 years in Texas. Falls County registered 52 freedmen in 1867, 3% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Falls County, Texas
12 years
In Texas
30 years
In the county
about 1857
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1857 to 1870

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In Falls County

Joe Shaw

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Joe Shaw
County of registration
Falls County
Registered
November 16, 1869
Years in Texas
12 years
Years in Falls County
30 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Falls County highlighted
Falls County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Shaw in Falls County

Shaws elsewhere in Texas

All 64 freedmen named Shaw 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 Falls County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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