Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Monroe James, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Monroe James registered to vote in Anderson County on August 1, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Monroe James
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Monroe James
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 1, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named James in Anderson County
- Hemmidal Jamesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1853
- James Jamesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1857
Jameses 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. Anderson County's entries fill 53 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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