Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Major Chambers, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Major Chambers registered to vote in Bastrop County on August 5, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Major Chambers
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Major Chambers
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsMajor Chambers reported 20 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Chambers in Bastrop County
- Alexander Chambersborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1840
- Joseph Chambersborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1851
- Martin Chambersborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1846
- William Chambersborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1862
Chamberses 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 31 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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