Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alex Jackson, Chambers County, Texas, 1869
Alex Jackson registered to vote in Chambers County on November 31, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 10 of them in Chambers County. The registrar wrote "Emancipation in 1865 in Texas" beside his name.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Alex Jackson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alex Jackson
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 31, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 11 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1865"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Alex Jackson"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipation in 1865 in Texas"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsAlex Jackson reported 11 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
Other freedmen named Jackson in Chambers County
- Andrew Jacksonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1864
- Henry Jacksonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1818
Jacksons 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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