Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henry Curtis, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Henry Curtis registered to vote in Chambers County on August 7, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas" beside his name.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Chambers County
Henry Curtis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henry Curtis
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 5 months
- Years in the precinct
- 5 months
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 15 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1863"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Henry Curtis"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas"
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsHenry Curtis reported 15 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
Curtises 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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