Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Squire Palmer, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Squire Palmer registered to vote in Chambers County on August 7, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 5 of them in Chambers County.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
1847186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Chambers County
Squire Palmer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Squire Palmer
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 5 years 5 months
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years 5 months
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 15 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1863"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Reuben Redman"
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsSquire Palmer reported 15 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
Other freedmen named Palmer in Chambers County
- John Palmerborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1845
- John Palmerborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1866
Palmers 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 1 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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