Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jacob Cartridge, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Jacob Cartridge registered to vote in Chambers County on August 8, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 5 of them in Chambers County. The registrar wrote "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas" beside his name.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Jacob Cartridge
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jacob Cartridge
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 7 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1863"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Jacob Cartridge"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsJacob Cartridge reported 7 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
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 Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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