Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Andrew Jamison, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Andrew Jamison registered to vote in Walker County on August 1, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored. Had been in county and precinct for 32 days" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Andrew Jamison
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Andrew Jamison
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 1, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Walker County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Walker County
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "Andrew X Samson"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored. Had been in county and precinct for 32 days"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsAndrew Jamison reported 3 years more in Texas than in Walker County.
Jamisons 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 2 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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