Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Ledbetter, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Ledbetter registered to vote in Chambers County on August 19, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Chambers County. The registrar wrote "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas" beside his name.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Chambers County
Joseph Ledbetter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Ledbetter
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1863"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Joseph Redwater"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas"
Other freedmen named Ledbetter in Chambers County
- Ned Ledbetterborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1847
Ledbetters 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 3 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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