Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
William Cooper, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
William Cooper registered to vote in Chambers County on August 8, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 7 of them in Chambers County.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
1857186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Chambers County
William Cooper
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- William Cooper
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 3 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1863"
- Naturalized, where
- "Virginia"
- Signature, as written
- "William Cooper"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsWilliam Cooper reported 3 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
Other freedmen named Cooper in Chambers County
- Daniel Cooperborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1858
- Morgan Cooperborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1849
Coopers 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 1 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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