Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Harry Bell, Chambers County, Texas, 1869
Harry Bell registered to vote in Chambers County on December 2, 1869. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Emancipation in Texas in 1865" beside his name.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Chambers County
Harry Bell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Harry Bell
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- December 2, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 8 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipated"
- Naturalized, when
- "1865"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipation in Texas in 1865"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsHarry Bell reported 8 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
Bells 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 8 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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