Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Carroll, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Robert Carroll registered to vote in Shelby County on July 27, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Shelby County
Robert Carroll
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Carroll
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 9
- Registered
- July 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Shelby County
- 24 years
- Signature, as written
- "Robert x Carroll"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsRobert Carroll reported 24 years more in Texas than in Shelby County.
Other freedmen named Carroll in Shelby County
- Ambus Carrollborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1846
- Jackson S. Carrollborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1846
- Martin Carrollborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1849
Carrolls 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 5 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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