Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuell Meritt, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Samuell Meritt registered to vote in Chambers County on August 7, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas, 15 of them in Chambers County.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 22 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1845
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1845 to 1870
1845186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Chambers County
Samuell Meritt
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuell Meritt
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 7 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1863"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Samuel Merritt"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsSamuell Meritt reported 7 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
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 1 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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