Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Plank S. Mades, Chambers County, Texas, 1869
Plank S. Mades registered to vote in Chambers County on November 31, 1869. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Emancipated in Texas in 1865. Certificate from Galveston" beside his name.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Plank S. Mades
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Plank S. Mades [Madois]
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 31, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 8 months
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 6 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1865"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "P. J. Meadows"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipated in Texas in 1865. Certificate from Galveston"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsPlank S. Mades [Madois] reported 6 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
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 7 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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