Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jerry Benson, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Jerry Benson registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 5, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Jerry Benson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jerry Benson
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsJerry Benson reported 3 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Benson in Bastrop County
- Robert Bensonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1855
Bensons 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. Bastrop County's entries fill 50 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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