Jasper County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Shelby, Jasper County, Texas, 1867
Peter Shelby registered to vote in Jasper County on August 20, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Jasper County registered 310 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Shelby
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Jasper County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Elias his X mark Hadnott " " ""
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Shelby in Jasper County
- Clark Shelbyborn in Tennessee
- William Shelbyborn in Texas
Shelbys 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 4 of the Jasper County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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