Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henry Bowie, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Henry Bowie registered to vote in Chambers County on August 21, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 21 of them in Chambers County. The registrar wrote "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas" beside his name.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
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In Chambers County
Henry Bowie
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henry Bowie
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 21 years
- Years in the precinct
- 21 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Birth"
- Naturalized, when
- "1840"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "H. C. Brown"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas"
Other freedmen named Bowie in Chambers County
- Andrew Bowieborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- Moses Bowieborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1837
Bowies 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 Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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