Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jacob Nickerson, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Jacob Nickerson registered to vote in Shelby County on August 24, 1867. He reported Florida as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 30 of them in Shelby County. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Florida
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 30 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
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In Shelby County
Jacob Nickerson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jacob Nickerson
- Place of birth
- Florida
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 30 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Signature, as written
- "S. Williams"
Other freedmen named Nickerson in Shelby County
- Jessee Nickersonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
Nickersons elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Nickerson
- Dickerson 14
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 16 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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