Bowie County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gray Benjamin, Bowie County, Texas, 1869
Gray Benjamin registered to vote in Bowie County on July 20, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 2 years in Texas, 2 of them in Bowie County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bowie County registered 462 freedmen in 1867, 55% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Bowie County
Gray Benjamin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gray Benjamin
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Bowie County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in Bowie County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
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. Bowie County's entries fill 21 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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