Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Morgan Cooper, Chambers County, Texas, 1869

Morgan Cooper registered to vote in Chambers County on December 1, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 10 of them in Chambers County. The registrar wrote "Emancipated in Texas in 1865" beside his name.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Virginia and Texas marked
Born in Virginia, registered in Chambers County, Texas
Virginia
Birthplace
20 years
In Texas
10 years
In the county
about 1849
Reached Texas
10 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1849 to 1870

1849186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Chambers County

Morgan Cooper

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Morgan Cooper
Place of birth
Virginia
County of registration
Chambers County
Precinct
2
Registered
December 1, 1869
Years in Texas
20 years
Years in Chambers County
10 years
Years in the precinct
10 years
Years in Texas before Chambers County
10 years
Naturalized, how
"Emancipation"
Naturalized, when
"1865"
Naturalized, where
"Texas"
Signature, as written
"Morgan Cooper"
Remarks, as written
"Emancipated in Texas in 1865"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Chambers County highlighted
Chambers County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

10 years

Morgan Cooper reported 10 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.

Other freedmen named Cooper in Chambers County

Coopers elsewhere in Texas

All 63 freedmen named Cooper 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 7 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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