Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jasper Newton, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Jasper Newton registered to vote in Chambers County on August 13, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 8 of them in Chambers County. The registrar wrote "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas. Transferred to Galveston" beside his name.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Chambers County
Jasper Newton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jasper Newton
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Birth"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Jackson Austin"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas. Transferred to Galveston"
Newtons 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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