Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wade Hampton, Chambers County, Texas, 1869
Wade Hampton registered to vote in Chambers County on November 31, 1869. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 4 of them in Chambers County. The registrar wrote "Emancipated in Texas in 1865. Registered from Liberty" beside his name.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Wade Hampton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wade Hampton
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 31, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 11 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1865"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Wade Hampton"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipated in Texas in 1865. Registered from Liberty"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsWade Hampton reported 11 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
Hamptons 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 7 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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