Angelina County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henry Benny, Angelina County, Texas, 1867
Henry Benny registered to vote in Angelina County on August 24, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 24 years in Texas, 8 of them in Angelina County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 24 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1843 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Angelina County
Henry Benny
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henry Benny
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Angelina County
- Precinct
- Nelson
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 24 years
- Years in Angelina County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Years in Texas before Angelina County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsHenry Benny reported 16 years more in Texas than in Angelina County.
Other freedmen named Benny in Angelina County
- Amos Bennyborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1850
Bennys 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 7 of the Angelina County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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