Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
John Bentley, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
John Bentley registered to vote in Harrison County on November 17, 1869. He reported Ohio as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Ohio
- Birthplace
- about 1868
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Harrison County
John Bentley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- John Bentley
- Place of birth
- Ohio
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 14 months
- Years in Harrison County
- 14 months
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Tenn"
- Signature, as written
- "J. Bentley (x)"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Bentleys 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 87 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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