Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jacob Benjamin, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Jacob Benjamin registered to vote in Freestone County on August 16, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Jacob Benjamin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jacob Benjamin
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Benjamin in Freestone County
- George Benjaminborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1855
Benjamins 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 26 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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