Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jessee Nickerson, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Jessee Nickerson registered to vote in Shelby County on August 28, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 13 of them in Shelby County. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Shelby County
Jessee Nickerson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jessee Nickerson
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 months
- Signature, as written
- "Jesse x Nickerson"
Other freedmen named Nickerson in Shelby County
- Jacob Nickersonborn in Florida, reached Texas about 1837
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 18 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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