Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Foster, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Foster registered to vote in Chambers County on August 13, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 12 of them in Chambers County. The registrar wrote "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas" beside his name.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Thomas Foster
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Foster
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 8 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Birth"
- Naturalized, when
- "1814"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Thomas Foster"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsThomas Foster reported 8 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
Fosters 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 2 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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