Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Josephus Godfrey, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Josephus Godfrey registered to vote in Chambers County on August 8, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas, 23 of them in Chambers County.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 23 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
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In Chambers County
Josephus Godfrey
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Josephus Godfrey
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 23 years
- Years in the precinct
- 23 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Birth"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Josephine Godfrey"
Other freedmen named Godfrey in Chambers County
- Zacary Godfreyborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1837
Godfreys 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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